The show got multiple aspects of anterograde amnesia correct. The woman suffered a traumatic brain injury at the hands of a serial killer and displays symptoms of profound anterograde amnesia. Her working, procedural, and semantic memory systems are preserved, however, her episodic memory is left substantially impaired. “When a person has difficulty learning or remembering new information, it is called anterograde amnesia” (Seamon, 2015). The woman displayed several hallmark characteristics of episodic memory loss as she couldn’t remember people she had just met. She remains stuck in nineteen-eighty-six and she believes she is still seventeen years old. Seamon describes the case of a man named Henry Molaison, a man who became widely studied
