![]() ![]() For example, damage to Broca’s or Wernicke’s areas of the brain, which are specifically linked to speech production and language information, would probably cause language-related memory loss. Retrograde amnesia usually follows damage to areas of the brain other than the hippocampus (the part of the brain involved in encoding new memories), because already existing long-term memories are stored in the neurons and synapses of various different brain regions. The British musician Clive Wearing suffers from an acute and long-lasting case of both anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia. The famous anterograde amnesia case is known as "H.M." also suffered moderate retrograde amnesia, and could not remember most events in the year or two before surgery, nor some events up to 11 years before. Nobody, was a man, in his late twenties and with a slight Yorkshire English accent but no other identification, who awoke in a Toronto hospital in 1999 with what appeared to be severe retrograde or global amnesia.Īfter various attempts to obtain Canadian citizenship and to legally change his name, he turned out to be a Romanian called Sywalkd Skeid, and to exhibit no clinical evidence of amnesia at all. ![]() "Philip Staufen" (actually the name of a medieval German king, but it was the first name the man came up with when he woke up), also known as Mr. Perhaps the best-known example of retrograde amnesia actually turned out to be a scam. Retrograde amnesia is a form of amnesia where someone is unable to recall events that occurred before the development of the amnesia, even though they may be able to encode and memorize new things that occur after the onset. ![]()
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