For another incredible case of retrogade amnesia, check the story of Clive Wearing, the men with a few seconds of memory. Short clip: https://www.youtube.com/w

For another incredible case of retrogade amnesia, check the story of Clive Wearing, the men with a few seconds of memory. Short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwigmktix2Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwigmktix2Y Extended documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_P7Y0-wgos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_P7Y0-wgos 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" (https://youtu.be/k_P7Y0-wgos?t=1113 https://youtu.be/k_P7Y0-wgos?t=1113). 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, without remembering of having ever seen the movie. And, of course, it's touching to see the relationship with the wife.