Intro slide The 2004 romantic comedy 50 First Dates takes audiences on a heartfelt and humorous journey that explores the complex life of living with Amnesia. This report delves into the portrayal of amnesia as depicted in the film, exploring the accuracy of its portrayal, impact on society's perception of memory disorders, and ethical considerations surrounding its representation in the media. What is an Amnesia? Amnesia refers to a partial or total loss of memory, often resulting from an injury, illness, psychological trauma, or other factors that disrupt the normal functioning of the brain's memory systems. It is characterised by the inability to recall information that was previously stored in the memory, and it can affect various aspects of memory, including episodic, semantic, and procedural memory. Anterograde Vs Retrograde Amnesia Amnesia is …show more content…
This is surprisingly plausible, not just a happy ending because it’s a romance comedy. With anterograde amnesia, new memories are in fact being encoded and stored in the brain; the problem is that the patient can't access those memories. However, amnesia patients can still be affected by these memories in surprising and interesting ways. For example, Amnesia patient Kent Cochrane surprised his family the night before his brother’s wedding by getting a perm. For the rest of his life, he knew his brother had gotten married and could recognise his new family members in the wedding album. yet couldn’t remember being at the wedding and had no idea how his family reacted to his curly hair. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3541054/ Furthermore, Lucy’s behaviour and habits are accurate for patients with anterograde amnesia, such as keeping a journal where they document what they did that day, they read it the next morning when they wake
are two main forms of amnesia that this article will focus on and they will be retrograde and anterograde amnesia. Retrograde amnesia is “a deficit in memory characterized by an inability to remember past events” (Purdy, Markham, Schwartz, and Gordon 2001). This means that any memory before an accident or a surgery can (will be) lost. Retrograde amnesia is has puzzled many people. “The fact that information acquired before the onset of amnesia can be lost (retrograde amnesia) has fascinated psychologists
50 First Dates features Drew Barrymore as Lucy, who gets into a horrible car accident. She suffers a severe head injury, and therefore loses her short term memory. Although she still has all of her memories up until the night before her accident, she cannot retain any new memory she creates as she suffers from anterograde amnesia. Thus, every day she wakes up thinking its October 13 of the previous year. This movie also portrays how most family copes with this accident. To prevent her from reliving
50 First Dates Reflection In the movie 50 First Dates, the main characters are a woman named Lucy who has anterograde amnesia and a man named Henry who meets her one day – and then she meets him “for the first time” for the next several days. Lucy’s amnesia was caused by a traumatic head injury that resulted from a car accident. She has vivid memory of each day leading up to the accident, and lives each day the same way she planned for the day of the accident roughly a year earlier. To avoid daily
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