Man With Seven Seconds Of Memory

Paula Gil & Angela Herrera

Indicate the origin of his condition

- Wearing had herpes simplex encephalitis, a condition that can result in an

especially severe form of amnestic syndrome. It is claimed that primary infections
are to blame in the majority of instances.
- Being possible to manifest in neurological diseases as a result of thalamic lesions,
Korsakoff syndrome, bilateral hippocampal surgery, and other factors.
- She sustained permanent harm to parts of her brain, including her frontal lobe and
much of her hippocampus.
- Clive Wearing also suffers, to a lesser extent, from retrograde amnesia. A type of
amnesia that makes it impossible to remember certain events that happened before
his illness. In addition, he has been worrying for years that he has just woken up.

Explanation, medical, psychological and psychiatric

● Wearing develop amnesia a result of his illness

● The hippocampus is unable to form lasting new memories
● The events were lost between 7 and 30 seconds.
● Can't recall his age or the days of the week

What treatments he has received

● Memory therapy: form of amnesia treatment that helps some people learn
how to remember
● Training people with memory problems
● Mnemonics and memory tricks
● Clive used for the herpes virus, acyclovir

How this disease has affected his environment

● Left him unable to recognize people or events that happened earlier

● Not remember his children's names
● Ability to pick music has remained and affected
● Can't form thought of any sort