Clive Wearing

Clive Wearing

1. Background

   • Musician
   • Started with headache
   • Forgets his daughters name

2. Problems with memory

   • Severe memory loss
   • Repeating himself
   • Very emotional
   • Aggression (frustration)
   • Soon as memory hits brain it disappears
   • Time vacuum

3. Area of brain damage

   • Temporal lobe
     • Contains hippocampus

4. Any memory still intact

   • IQ intact
   • Perceives world the same
   • Can walk
   • Can talk
   • Anterograde and Retrograde amnesia

5. Other

   • Suffers from viral encephalitis
   • The word 'Darling' can help him remember to brush his teeth
   • Will wander away if taken to hotel to sleep
   • When he wakes up the first person he see's he thinks is the most important