introducing anterograde amnesia
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ANTEROGADE
AMNESIA
Introducing Anterograde Amnesia
Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact. There is quite often no such recovery and patients are left with a permanent and debilitating condition.
Damaged Brain Normal Brain
How The Movie Relates● According to the movie, after lucy
was involved in a car accident, she was known to be suffering from Goldfeild.(Goldfeild is a fiction
name of the specific form of Anterogade anmesia.)
● This cause her to lose all of her memory on the day of the accident
and anyday there after, any memory before her accident she still has, thus why she relives the
same day over and over again
Due to her circumstances,
lucy is unable to convert her
short term memory into her
long term memory during
her sleep, therefore she is
unable to recognize any
person she has met after the
accident
● The accident damaged her temprolobe, more specifically her hippocampus region.
● This area of the brain is crucial in forming new memories.
● There is no treatment or prevention known for Anterograde Amnesia
● One difference from the movie and from real life patients with Anterograde Amnesia is that with how servere this condition really is to a patient, all patients with this type of amnesia are actually kept in a hospital or a cre giver facility, the reason being that with them not being able to remeber their days after they happen, if something drasticly changes in the world or even to the patient, as they get older and look in the mirror, this can be very dramatic and scary for the patient.
Conclusion
In conclution, this disease does excist in real life, and it is well explained in the movie. In both lucy’s circomstance and they even show a shot glism of
how her condition could be even worse
