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Many people with epilepsy are unable to remember what happened immediately before they have a seizure. This may be because seizures and memory use the same pathways of the brain.
The culture of remembrance in Germany is viewed by many as exemplary. But it has some grave shortcomings.
The myth that a blow to the head can both cause and cure amnesia – a common one on TV and in the movies – may have begun during the 19th century.
Jason Bourne’s overall pattern of forgetting and then retrieving memories is a better plot device than representation of real-world memory loss and recovery.
People lose their memory in many different ways. A neuropsychologist explains the lingo.
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