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Clive Wearing, Part 2d: Living Without Memory

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Uploaded by on Oct 11, 2006

Presents an extraordinary example of the relationship between brain damage and memory function by reintroducing the viewer to Clive Wearing 13 years after his appearance in part one.

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  • I can only say that his wife is one hell of an extraordinary woman. Having the same repeated conversation with someone for 7-8 years must make most people go nuts. Extremely tiresome it must be... Always having to answer the same questions. I found this documentary really interesting.

  • The memories that she claims he is able to develop are procedural memories. Those are developed in the cerebellum which did not incur damage. This is why he is able to learn the locations of the necessary items to make tea but couldn't outright tell you, as he doesn't have a conscious memory of it.

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  • If there was a film about Clive Wearing, Hugh Grant should portray the amnesic afflicted man.

  • This makes me want to cry a little :( I don't know how she does it. My grandma has alzhiemers and she doesn't even recognize it anymore, but hearing about him and seeing that he has some sense of what's happening would be so terrible. Especially the 'please come darling' and the prison analogy she made earlier really got to me. It's like he's trapped. It's just so sad.

  • His wife is eternally understanding.. Beautifully amazing.

  • Does his wife not realize that she uses 500 words to say the same thing over and over and over? Surely by now someone would have told her about her illness.

  • that's why some some healhy people are naugthy!!

  • Very touching documentary... However, it's really strange how brain differentiate between experiences and memories.

  • @Symbiotel I think it may be possible that it is now normal for him. Somewhere he has become used to cameras being around so often that he no longer gets worked up about them. Though when watching a previous video from late 80s, early 90s, he looked very disgruntled and temperamental about... well, everything.

  • Apparently she actually divorced him for some time after the illness, she left and then came back and remarried him (obviously he had no memory of a divorce or marriage) but she did it for her because she knew she truly loved him. so yes she is truly amazin but she wasn't like that right off the bat, at first she got scared away

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