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The Man With The Seven Second Memory

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The story of Clive Wearing, a former musician who developed one of the most severe cases of amnesia ever recorded.

The remarkable and poignant story of Clive Wearing, a man with one of the worst cases of amnesia in the world. Once a renowned conductor and musician, Clive was struck down in 1985 by a virus that caused massive damage to his brain. Against the odds, doctors managed to save his life but he was left with a memory that spans just seven seconds. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: bit.ly/1GOzpIu Follow us on Twitter for more - twitter.com/Real_Stories_ Produced by ITV Studios. Content licensed from ITV Global. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com

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What people say. Highly recommended as a profound and moving documentary illustrating the extreme limits of human memory and brain damage.

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On “After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories”

For another incredible case of retrogade amnesia, check the story of Clive Wearing, the men with a few seconds of memory. Short clip: link Extended documentary: link to this video I learned of him through neuroscience classes. That was plenty of years ago, and I still think of his condition every now and then. One thing that amazes me is that he keeps stacks of diaries where he keeps erasing the previous entry, adding the current date and time, and writing "first entry I made consciously" ( link to this video ). But also, it seems that over time he does learn something new, somehow. For example, he can now reliably "predict" the ending of movies he has seen a great amount of times after the amnesia started, wit…

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On “There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)”

Have you seen the documentary "7 second memory man" on BBC. It is about an intelligent person who is confined to live with only 7 second memory. He keeps a diary recording his entries. As he reads past entries, he realises the predicament he is in and considers that his case would be interesting to doctors. Then forgets all about that. Rediscovering the whole thing again in the next 7 seconds for himself anew. 44:20 @ link to this video

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On “Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it”

…there any more, even in the documentaries about him he says the same things over and over again the only change seems to be he's mellowed out about his condition as he used to get aggressive when he was discussing it with people. There are 2 documentaries about him made decades apart Prisoner of consciousness: link The man with 7 second memory: link to this video…

Clive Wearingon WikipediaMentions

Linked from the Wikipedia article "Clive Wearing" (WikiProject Medicine).