Clive, Part 2

This was Part 2 to Clive's story. Equally as fascinating, and judging by the change in his wife's appearence, it must have took part a few years after the first one.

Main Ideas:

This video focused more on making Clive comfortable, acting on the fact that he gets extremely emotional in unfamiliar circumstances, as addressed in the first movie. When he is put into strange situations, there is more stress to his memory, causing more emotion. When he stays somewhere familiar, there is less demand on him to remember, and he stays calm. His wife Deborah is also more involved in this video.
I found it particularly interesting when she was asking him what month it was, and he guessed correctly, and then knew that next month was his birthday, and his brothers.

Vocab:

Neuropsychology: The branch of psychology that deals with the relationship between the nervous system, especially the brain, and cerebral or mental functions such as language, memory, and perception.

Cognitive: of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes.

Episodic memory: memory for episodes in your own life

Coronal: Of, relating to, or having the direction of the coronal suture or of the plane dividing the body into front and back portions.

Amygdala: a ganglion of the limbic system adjoining the temporal lobe of the brain and involved in emotions of fear and aggression.

That Clive Guy, Part 1.

I was so fascinated by this guy's story. I can't even imagine not being able to remember something I had just experienced less than a minute before. That's crazy. And I absolutely LOVED how he remembered his feelings for his wife so strongly. He can barely remember who he is, and he can't remember his passion for music unless he's at a piano, but he instantly recognizes his wife.
But anyway, onto the assignment.

Main Ideas:

This video was a demonstration of how fundamental memory is to our daily lives. Clive had a full working memory all of his life, until he experienced an everyday headache. And everything went downhill from there. He weaves in and out of his life, and only remembers moments. No past, just moments. He's constantly checking his watch and recording what is happening, because he knows he'll forget. His condition also causes him to repeat everything he says, and become extremely emotional when he can't remember what he was doing or talking about, or where he is.

Vocab:

Temporal lobe: The lobe of each cerebral hemisphere lying to the side and rear of the frontal lobe. The temporal lobe controls hearing and some aspects of language perception, emotion, and memory.

Hippocampus: a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories

Memory: the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.