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A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Abyss
by possibly noteworthy at 10:28 pm EDT, Sep 19, 2007

New Oliver Sacks in The New Yorker.

In March of 1985, Clive Wearing, an eminent English musician and musicologist in his mid-forties, was struck by a brain infection—a herpes encephalitis—affecting especially the parts of his brain concerned with memory. He was left with a memory span of only seconds—the most devastating case of amnesia ever recorded.


 
 
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