An interesting illness is mentioned in the movie 50 First Dates, which tells the story of a woman named Lucy, who wakes up to a very old time and does not remember the previous day when she wakes up every morning. But did you know that this disease really exists?
50 First Dates is one of the first movies that comes to mind when it comes to romantic-comedy movies. Henry, who is in love with Lucy, reveals what he did to make her not forget him. The movie was inspired by a true event and was brought to the big screen in 2004.
The movie has been highly appreciated by the audience since the first day it was released with its funny and emotional scenes. Has an interesting memory disorder Lucy character inspiration The story of Michelle Philpots, the woman who is Let’s take a closer look at both Michelle’s life and this interesting disease.
Michelle was involved in a motorcycle accident in 1985 and gradually began to experience memory loss.
However, the real big accident that caused Michelle to remember the past every morning when she wakes up happened in 1990. In both accidents brain damage The woman was diagnosed with epilepsy in 1994. As the years passed, the memory loss progressed further and this situation began to negatively affect business life.
The car that Michelle crashed into
So much so that one day, photocopying the same document at work was the last straw and Michelle was fired from her job. The woman, whose memory loss worsened, woke up one morning. began to think the year 1994 and that’s when his life got even weirder from then on.
Every morning when she woke up, thinking that the year was 1994 and she was 23 years old, the woman remembered her husband but did not remember that they were married.
Just like in the movie, her husband reminds his wife that they are both married and their daily work. He started to stick reminders all over the house, set reminders on his phone.. This was a very difficult situation for both Michelle and her husband Ian.
However, Ian says that as frustrating as this is, he loves his wife very much and is very lucky to have photographs that can remind his wife of the events, especially that they are married. Because if it wasn’t for the photos or if they hadn’t met before 1994 Michelle wouldn’t be able to recognize him at all..
Michelle, on the other hand, tried to look at the glass half full, even though it was as if she lived the same day every day. For example; he can watch his favorite movies over and over again, He could laugh again at the jokes he had heard many times before.
The doctors’ diagnosis of Michelle was “anterograde amnesia.” So what is this disease?
anterograde amnesia, It is the loss of the brain’s ability to memorize newly experienced events. In other words, just like in Michelle and Lucy in the movie, the patient cannot remember his recent past or even a few minutes ago in the later stages.
This disease, which causes memory to be reset continuously, is usually damage to different parts of the brain arises because of These two regions known to cause anterograde amnesia are the hippocampus and basal forebrain.
hippocampus, is the part of the brain where it processes new real information and remembers it permanently.. If this part is damaged, as in Michelle, it cannot permanently store any new information in its memory, or it saves it for a short time.
basal forebrain, helps the brain remember new information learned It is the structural group that produces the organic chemical acetylcholine. Just as with Michelle, memory problems can occur if the basal forebrain is damaged.
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