Hi Tipsters:
 
There's a new documentary out - unknown white male - in which a man turns up on a NY subway with such severe retrograde amnesia he no longer knows who he is.
 
My BS detector has been triggered, because my understanding of scientific (as opposed to dopey soap opera) explanations of amnesia is that one would have to have massive cortical damage (not a "bump on the head" as mentioned in the review of the movie) and be disabled a la Clive Waring in order to lose one's sense of identity.
 
Can anyone speak to this - I would like to be prepared, I may not have a chance to go see this movie before the questions from students begin.
 
It doesn't sound plausible at all and I am suspicious given that the subject of the documentary and the producer are also friends.
 
Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College
Long Beach CA
 
 
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