And while we are on this one, how about the fellow in Europe who occasionally
shows up on news programming here in the US--apparently a trained musician but
has forgotten his own identity, etc. If anyone can fill in the rest of us that
would be great.
Annette
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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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Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
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