PSYC 1F90 Chapter 2: Sacks Ch. 2 The Lost Mariner
9 Mar 2012
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Jimme g. , 49 years old, admitted to home for the aged near new york city 1975. Served in the marines as a radio worker on submarines. Talked about his past as if it was the present, thought the present was 1945 and that he was 19years old. Could recall the past easily, but would quickly forget new memories, loss of recent memory. Intelligence was high, was able to keep up with quick tasks, but if tasks were slow he would forget. With recent actions, sometimes was able to recollect a faint echo of what may of happened on rare occasion but tended to think it was a past memory, happened longer ago than recently. Stuck in limbo in 1945, no past no future, his problem was genuine from multiple tests. Impression: probably korsakov"s syndrome due to alcoholic degeneration of the mammillary bodies. Tests showed no evidence of brain damage, mammillary bodies don"t show up in such testing.
