Clive Wearing, HM, and amnesia

We recently viewed the 'Identity Project" at the Wellcome Collection. It is quite fantastic, and runs until early April 2010. One of the most intriguing exhibits were the diaries of Clive Wearing, who has been unable to store new memories since developing a virus in the mid 80s. It is haunting to read page after page of 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.

There is a collection of video documentaries here. The most famous person to have anterograde amnesia is Henry Molaison, following a bilateral lobectomy to cure his epilepsy (which it did). He died last year, and here is The Economist's obituary. Here is what's happened to his brain.

Of course the most famous fictional case is from the film 'Memento' - one of the very few occasions I've looked forward to a film and it's not disappointed. Evidently the documentary "Unknown White Male" (based on Doug Bruce) is a possible hoax.

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