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Clive Wearing (born 1938) is a British musicologist, conductor, and keyboardist suffering from an acute and long lasting case of anterograde amnesia. Specifically, this means he lacks the ability to form new memories, dubbed the "memento" syndrome by laypeople and the media, after a film based on the subject of the same name. Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A musicologist is someone who studies musicology. ...
Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ...
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. ...
Anterograde amnesia is a form of amnesia, or memory loss, where new events are not transferred to long-term memory. ...
This article is about the film. ...
On March 29, 1985, Wearing, then an acknowledged expert in early music at the height of his career with BBC Radio 3, contracted herpes encephalitis. Normally causing only cold sores, in Wearing's case the virus attacked his brain. Primarily it damaged the hippocampus, which plays a major role in the handling of long term memory formation. Additionally, he sustained marginal damage to the temporal and frontal lobes. The former houses the amygdala, a component implicated in the control of emotions and associated memories. March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (89th in leap years). ...
Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ...
Early music is commonly defined as European classical music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque. ...
BBC Radio 3 is a domestic UK BBC radio station, which devotes most of its schedule to classical music. ...
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Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain, commonly caused by a viral infection. ...
The hippocampus is structurally located inside the medial temporal lobe of the brain. ...
In psychology, memory is an organisms ability to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. ...
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Wearing developed a profound case of total amnesia as a result of his illness. Because the part of the brain required to transfer memories from the 'working' to the 'long term' area is damaged, he is completely unable to encode new memories. He spends every day 'waking up' every few minutes, 'restarting' his consciousness once the time span of his short term memory elapses. He remembers little of his life before 1985; he knows, for example, that he has children from an earlier marriage, but cannot remember their names. His love for his second wife Deborah, whom he married the year prior to his illness, is undiminished. He greets her joyously every time they meet, believing he has not seen her in years, even though she may have just left the room to fetch a glass of water.
Despite having retrograde as well as anterograde amnesia, and thus only a moment-to-moment consciousness, Wearing still recalls how to play the piano and conduct a choir--all this despite having no recollection of having received a musical education. This is because his cerebellum, responsible for the maintenance of procedural memory, was to no extent damaged by the virus. As soon as the music stops, however, Wearing forgets that he has just played and starts shaking spasmodically. These jerkings are physical signs of an inability to control his emotions, stemming from the damage to his inferior frontal lobe. Unable to comprehend its structural deficiency, his brain is still trying to fire information in the form of action potentials to neurostructures that no longer exist. The resulting encephalic electrical disturbance leads to fits like those experienced by persons suffering from severe epilepsy. The cerebellum (Latin: little brain) is a region of the brain that plays an important role in the integration of sensory perception and motor output. ...
Procedural memory, also known as implicit memory, is the long-term memory of skills and procedures, or how to knowledge. ...
In a diary provided by his caretakers, Clive was encouraged to record his thoughts. Page after page is filled with entries similar to the following:
8:31 AM: Now I am really, completely awake.
9:06 AM: Now I am perfectly, overwhelmingly awake.
9:34 AM: Now I am superlatively, actually awake. Earlier entries are usually crossed out, since he forgets having made an entry within minutes and dismisses the writings as being untrue. He still writes diary entries today, more than two decades after he started them. The content is essentially unchanged from his earliest ones.
His wife Deborah has written a book about her husband's case entitled Forever Today.
His story was told in a 1986 documentary entitled Equinox: Prisoner of Consciousness, and then his updated story was re-told in the 2005 ITV documentary The Man with the 7 Second Memory, although Wearing's short term memory spans much longer than that. Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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He also appears in the 2006 documentary series Time, where his case is used to illustrate the effect of losing one's perception of time. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
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Anterograde amnesia is a form of amnesia, or memory loss, where new events are not transferred to long-term memory. ...
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External links - Article in The Observer magazine on Clive Wearing, January 2005
- The Man with the 7 Second Memory at the Internet Movie Database
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