Word: amnesiaize
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...model patient when he came to the office for follow-up. He claimed (perhaps a tiny bit evasively) that he didn't have nightmares and that he couldn't recall anything weird about the night we fixed his arm. Versed does cause amnesia - sometimes. But I like to think it was something already in there, more mysterious and far more powerful, that brought Sasha's head back to earth...
Their story unraveled with the melodrama and economy of a soap opera. And on Sunday morning, with every exotic plot twist and incredible detail seemingly exhausted, it reached its end. John Darwin, the missing kayaker who resurfaced, claiming amnesia, more than five years after apparently drowning, and his wife, Anne, are now both in custody...
...quickly as Fleet Street could dub Darwin Canoe Man (Kayak Man doesn't have quite the same ring) Darwin's tale began to leak. Medical experts noted that Darwin's symptoms didn't square with those normally manifested by amnesia victims. But the thread that untangled the story was a photograph that Britain's Daily Mirror unearthed of the couple on the web site of a company specializing in relocating foreigners to Panama, where Anne Darwin settled this fall. She quickly conceded that the snapshot, taken when the couple traveled to the Central American nation to seek housing...
...sometimes moving world that he first introduced in books like “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” a world populated by Sacks’s patients, many of whom have neurological disorders like amnesia, Parkinson’s, Tourette’s, aphasia, and autism. Sacks believes that through the experience of these patients we can witness, in its most basic forms, the “wonderful machinery” that gives rise to human beings’ love of music.Over the course...
...husband - still hewing to his complaints of amnesia - was declared medically fit for questioning Thursday afternoon. Dr. Ashok Jansari, an expert in the neuropsychology of memory at the University of East London, says there are tests capable of assessing whether Darwin was feigning amnesia, but that none - including a polygraph - is entirely reliable. Jansari told TIME he expected the evaluation would "try to capitalize on the discrepancy between true amnesia and what a layperson would think it is." He says that while it is "perfectly possible" Darwin could not remember spending time with his wife since 2002, "it would...