Saturday, July 18, 2015

Amnesia

Memory-loss case ‘like nothing we have ever seen before’
July 15, 2015

(credit: Newmarket Films) 
Man has anesthetic at dentist, leaves with 90-minute memory and belief that every day is the same
Gerald Burgess, a University of Leicester lecturer in clinical psychology, has described treating an individual who suffered a “Memento/Before I Go to Sleep“-style anterograde amnesia memory loss after a treatment at a dentist — “like nothing we have ever seen before.” Since the one-hour root-canal treatment, during which the a 38-year-old man from the UK was given … more…

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