![]() ![]() To be clear, I think this is an excellent book. The inspiration for these thoughts on the representation of memory were prompted by C. An award-winning novel of conflict and ambition The ‘mindwipe’ trope or the accidental or deliberate erasure of memories is a recurrent theme in films and science fiction and often paints a picture where amnesia can be induced without impacts on wider functioning. Right: A gorgeous engraving depicting a brain with the operculum removed to render the uncinate fasciculus visible, indicated in yellow Middle: Description of some of the difficulties faced by ML. Left: A T2-weighted image with lesion highlighted with white arrows. ![]() The figure below provides some more detail on this damage and the difficulties faced by Patient ML, directly and indirectly, because of his inability to recall previous experiences and learned facts. After a car accident, they suffered damage to their right ventral frontal cortex and in a white matter tract (or brain road) known as the uncinate fasciculus, which connects the temporal lobe and the frontal lobe. Patient ML is a well-known case of ‘pure retrograde amnesia’. This can be temporary, or more permanent in severe cases. In the real world, retrograde amnesia refers to the forgetting of explicit information (including episodic/autobiographical and semantic/factual) of already information. “Ignorance killed the cat curiosity was framed!” Wickens Aristotle Articles Avengers Bologna Brain Stimulation cellular neuroscience Charles Stross CJ Cherryh Cochrane connectivity Consciousness David Ferrier diffusion MRI EEG epilepsy etymology Eyewire Fiction fMRI Folk Psychology Galen James Cameron John Hughlings Jackson John Scalzi Luigi Galvini MRI networks Neural Correlates of Consciousness neuroanatomy neuroethics neurology Neuromyths neurosciencefiction neuroskeptic neurosurgery Non-Western Neuroscience Patient HM psychic Rene Descartes Robert Heinlein Scientific English Space Magic split-brain Star Trek tropes Vision Visual System Wilder Penfield women in scifi X-men xkcd Your Brain on.Books Your Brain On.Comics Your Brain on.Film Your Brain through.History Archives Archives NEUROSCIENCE, MRI, BRAIN LINKS Tags 10%urBrain Alcmaeon of Croton amnesia anatomy Andrew P.
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