To a large degree, anterograde amnesia remains a mysterious ailment because the precise mechanism of storing memories is not yet well-understood, although scientists know which regions of the brain are involved. It is different from retrograde amnesia, where memories prior to the event are forgotten. Anterograde amnesia is a loss of memory of what happens after the event that caused the amnesia. Lucy Whitmore is the character with anterograde amnesia. Henry must devise a plan to meet Lucy every day and try to get her to fall in love with him again and again. Henry falls in love with Lucy, but there is one problem when she awakens in the morning, she can’t remember him or anything that happened that day.
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Henry meets Lucy at a local cafe and takes her out on a date.
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The movie is about Henry Roth who is a wildlife veterinarian in Hawaii, meeting Lucy Whitmore a woman who has a short-term memory loss from an auto accident a year earlier. Overall, this was a perfect movie to accurately demonstrate human memory and forgetting.In the movie 50 First Dates, one of the main characters suffers from the severe condition of anterograde amnesia. She showed her procedural memory by painting the wall every day, but does not have declarative memory because she wakes up every morning thinking it is the same day. She proved that she could encode daily information but could not store them correctly. Lucy’s character was obviously the main subject of memory loss in the movie and displayed the expected symptoms. Throughout the whole movie there were demonstrations of all types of memory problems. Some memories, such as procedural memories, can sometimes be formed with the hippocampus.Īccording to everything in the book and in lecture I believe that this movie demonstrated memory and anterograde amnesia very accurately. She can encode the information for the day but cannot properly store the information for further knowledge, therefore cannot retrieve anything previously new. Though she can remember things from years before, she cannot fully process the new information, such as declarative memory, for more than a day. So while all of Lucy’s memories gained or experienced prior to the accident are intact such as her childhood, people’s names, who she is, and where she lives, everything learned and experienced after is a completely “new” experience to her even if she encounters it daily.Īs we learned in class, with a hippocampal injury, the new memories cannot pass the hippocampus to enter permanent storage in the brain. Anterograde amnesia is when one can no longer form long-term memories that have occurred after a specific event, such as the car accident. While this disease is completely fictional, however, anterograde amnesia is what Lucy’s condition is really known as. The damage experienced by the hippocampal region of her brain has left her with a form of amnesia, referred to in the movie as “Goldfield’s Syndrome”. Every night when she goes to bed, “her slate is wiped clean”, as stated in the movie and the next morning she starts all over. Lucy’s belief that it is still October 13th causes her to accomplish her daily tasks that she had planned for that day. Ever since then, she wakes up, remembering everything up to the point of the accident but nothing that has happened since then. October 13th was the day she and her father got in a car accident in town.
Lucy wakes up every day believing it is October 13th, 2002 which is her father’s birthday. The movie accurately demonstrated characteristics that would be found in someone with damage to the hippocampal region. This area of the brain is crucial in forming new memories.
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This accident damaged her temporal lobe more specifically, her hippocampal region.
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The brain damage causes Lucy to suffer from short-term memory loss. In the movie “50 First Dates”, Lucy Whitmore is involved in a horrible car accident which causes severe brain damage. Psychology Paper on the Movie 50 First Dates