In a 'never-before-seen case', reminiscent of the film "Ghajini", a man in the UK has been left with just 90-minutes of memory after a root-canal treatment at a dentist. The patient was referred to Dr Gerald Burgess, a clinical psychologist from University of Leicester, a decade ago.
"One of our reasons for writing up this individual's case was that we had never seen anything like this before in our assessment clinics, and we do not know what to make of it, but felt an honest reporting of the facts as we assessed them was warranted, that perhaps there will be other cases, or people who know more than we do about what might have caused the patient's amnesia," said Burgess. "Our experience was that none of our colleagues in neurology, psychiatry, and clinical neuropsychology could explain this case, or had seen anything like it themselves before," said Burgess, who collaborated with…
