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50 First Dates

2/5/2013

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A man, in love with a woman with nightly memory loss, attempts to make a strong enough impression to overcome her disability. 

 Henry meets Lucy during breakfast one morning, and instantly falls in love.  When he sees her the next day, she has no memory of the two of them ever having met.  Henry learns that Lucy loses everything she learns during the day when she falls asleep at night – the apparent result of a car accident years ago.  Lucy, her father, and her brother constantly relive the day before her accident, to avoid the daily pain as she discovers her condition.   Henry won’t give up, and meets Lucy each morning for breakfast in an attempt to make a lasting impression.  


Neuropsychological Review
I don't know who you are, but I dream about you
Tim Daly and Mary Spiers

Lucy’s memory problems began following a car accident, which took place one year before the movie begins.  On the way home from their annual pineapple pick, Lucy and her father veer off the road to avoid a cow and Lucy suffers a head injury [00:22:48].  Lucy’s specific condition is described as Goldfield’s Syndrome, a fictional disorder created for this movie.  

The way in which Lucy’s memory degrades is unlike any actual type of anterograde amnesia.  Memory is a  process consisting of transferring short-term memory (around 7 bits of information, lasting about 20 seconds) into long-term memory stores.  For Lucy, falling asleep is a trigger after which the previous day’s experiences are completely forgotten.  In contrast, an actual case of anterograde amnesia would result in Lucy showing problems learning and retaining new information during the day.  If anything, sleep should help to consolidate new memories.  Anterograde amnesia can cause serious detriment to a person's life, if the condition is severe enough, by interfering with simple conversations and tasks that take time to complete.  In the movie version of amnesia, Lucy relives the day of her accident over and over, as if it had never happened.  She eats breakfast at the same diner, reads the same paper, paints the same mural, and watches the same movie with her brother and father [00:22:45].  The closest neurological problem that involves repeating something over and over called “perseveration”.  However, Perseveration usually relates to the repetition of particular responses, words, gestures or behaviors. The repetition of complex sequences of action or habits related to a literally repeating a day has not been described in any actual cases.

One particularly interesting development comes when Henry visits Lucy at the brain injury center where she teaches an art class.  Henry finds that Lucy has been painting pictures of him. In the movie Lucy says " I don't know who you are Henry, but I dream about you almost every night." (1:26:00).  This would suggest that small bits of information are being transferred into Lucy's long-term memory, but not so much as to make her fully consciously aware of who he is when he appears each day; these bits of memory only come out in her painting, and her singing[1:24:00]. In the movie, this allows Lucy to form an emotional connection to Henry, which is needed to make a love story believable. In the neuropsychological literature the famous case of H.M. (a man with severe anterograde amnesia) slowly built a subconscious (or implicit) recognition of his doctor over time but was not able to consciously recognize say he knew him.  If Lucy loses her memory every night, would she actually be able to remember Henry in her dreams?

Despite the importance of Lucy's memory problem and its influence on the story, very little detail is provided regarding a description of her symptoms or a diagnosis.  The viewer is only told that Lucy was hurt, she loses any new memories when she falls asleep, and, in passing, the name of her fictional disorder is given.  For this reason, 50 First Dates is not accurate from a neuropsychological perspective, but it is a good starting point to talk about how sleep works to consolidate memory.  It’s a light comedy and does provide good entertainment even though the ending  is sugar coated.  In the end Lucy accepts her life and the new people in it, even though she has no memory of them and no memory of their shared relationships over time. 

27 Comments
Abigail Coombs
11/25/2013 12:26:35 am

Fifty First Dates is a very funny and entertaining movie, but it does not represent amnesia well at all. The authors of this original post brought up a very good point that sleep is supposed to consolidate memory, not act as a trigger to erase them. I have worked with brain injured patients, and signs of anterograde amnesia should be seen when the person is awake and functioning through the day, not immediately after sleeping. If Lucy truly had anterograde amnesia, she would struggle to learn and remember who Henry is and what his name is, but she would not relive the day before her accident every day. It would be very likely that she would question what day it is on a regular basis, but she would be able to accept that time had passed. The authors of the original post also made a good point in mentioning that the movie never explained her injury, so there is really no support for how or why her memory is affected so drastically.

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Paul link
3/8/2015 11:18:31 am

not to throw a wrench in the works for you but i have a condition similar to what is described. It is the result of trauma and it resets at at time and interval i am unaware of. To all of you out there who think the movie is cute i should let u know in real life its a living hell. You don't help me making me relive the same thing over and over again... So far all its done is help my past enemies keep attacking me. Also if you want to help me stop destroying my records of my life.... I have a right to know who I am even if I have to record it on a piece of paper. I have searched for a name for it and this web blog is the closest thing I can find. As for you academics who want to argue the possibility of this I offer you two points of reference first physical brain damage and severe psychological trauma.

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Josh
10/13/2015 06:38:34 am

Paul,

I am sorry to hear of your condition. I am a neurologist who recently met a patient with a similar condition. I would be interested in hearing of your trauma and any imaging you have had done.

Regards,
Josh

Paulette Bridgewater link
10/28/2015 11:18:59 am

My husband does suffer from what has been labeled as Anterograde Amnesia. In March of 2012 he suffered from Bi-lateral pulmonary embolisms. These caused him to go into cardiac arrest 5 times that day. While at the hospital he was without a blood pressure for 37 minutes. He survived, but is left with his daily memory erased every single night when he goes to sleep.(a few times when he takes a nap) When he wakes up he has the feeling that time has passed a bit and that there is something wrong with him. Although I did think this was a cute movie I now know the hell it is for him to wake up everyday not knowing what has happened to him. His last memory is collapsing on the floor of our bedroom. We have adapted by living with whiteboards and lots of pictures. We have had 4 new grand babies since 2012 which he gets to learn about every single morning. I wish there were more resources and studies out there. Just know that many doctors, physiologists and other experts on the brain know nothing about why this happens. We are thankful for the friends and family that have embraced my husband and I through it all.

Karen
11/9/2015 01:56:04 pm

My 15 year old was thrown from a horse three weeks ago and suffered a severe concussion with a small subarachnoid hemorrhage, (along with a collapsed lung, and other contusions), which did not need surgical intervention. She remembers everything until she left the hospital, (about 24 hours after the accident). She is very functional and lucid throughout the day, and has excellent short and long term memory...until she falls asleep. In the morning, she has no recollection of the day before, or any before that until the day she left the hospital after the accident. We have an appointment tomorrow with the concussion clinic, but I can't find any similar cases online.

Trisha
4/14/2019 08:40:16 am

Paul can you have Josh contact me? My husband has this condition and no one will help us!

Shweta Shastri
1/31/2014 02:58:03 am

Updated Post for 50 First Dates

I agree with the review in that it is not an accurate portrayal of amnesia. According to Medilexicon’s medical dictionary, amnesia is loss of memory “in reference to events occurring after the trauma or disease that caused the condition.” Lucy suffers a traumatic car accident that results in brain damage, and memory loss. The movie does not accurately portray this disorder; it is not possible that she wakes up every morning with no recollection of the past. According to what we have learned in class, the hippocampus in the brain controls memory, which would have to be the area of the brain that Lucy had damaged in the accident in order for her to have impaired memory issues. However, as a fictional movie, Fifty First dates is a romantic and comedic film that engages viewers through sympathy for Lucy and love for her and Henry as a couple. I do not believe this movie was intended to be a psychological documentary to teach others about neuropsychological disorders.

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Jenna Bushspies
2/9/2014 12:29:04 pm

Jenna Bushspies

NeuroPsyfi Movie Comment: 50 First Dates

This movie is meant for entertainment means only. As the review states, it is not an accurate portrayal of amnesia. However, it is, in a few aspects, similar to the disorder. Amnesia is when people lose their ability to memorize data. It also refers to the inability to store memory, and this could happen through brain trauma or sometimes the use of specific drugs (Nordqvist). The movie is accurate in that she cannot store memory due to a brain injury, the car accident. The accident most likely damaged part of her hippocampus and/or cerebral cortex. However, sleep would not reset everything that she did remember; as the review says, sleep should actually help create new memories. This movie very simply shows kind of what amnesia could do and is entertaining, however, from a psychologist’s point of view, this movie is inaccurate and the disorder the woman has is fictional.



Works Cited

Nordqvist, Christian. "What Is Amnesia? What Causes Amnesia?" Medical News Today. MediLexicon International, 14 July 2009. Web. 03 Feb. 2014.

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Sahil Bangera
2/26/2014 08:16:29 am

The movie "50 First dates" is a wonderful comedy that talks about a patient who is mentally affected with a type of fictional amnesia. Movies usually use fictional facts to make te movie more interesting hence this movie is a good start into talking about brain damage and how difficult it could be for a person to live with such a damage. The actual diesease is called anterograde amnesia where the patient has difficulty in processing short term memory that lasts for barely seconds. We see that in the movie, they show an example of a person who forgets every 10 seconds. This would be a more apt example of amnesia. As the original post says, sleeping would help Lucy process what she learnt in her day instead of forgetting it. Later on in the movie, they also show how her dreams help her rememember Henry faintly. Anterograde amnesia is related with memory stored in the temporal cortex and makes patients forget short term memories. The disease is usually permanent but can be recoverable sometimes. Thus as the post suggests, this movie is not an exact representation of amnesia but helps show the viewers somewhat how difficult it is to live with anterograde amnesia.

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Brett Barry
3/4/2014 02:23:15 am

“50 First Dates” is a very interesting comedy where the directors used a fictional form of amnesia as the plot device of the movie. Lucy’s disease, “Goldfield Syndrome”, was only made for entertainment purpose and does not relate to any actual type of amnesia that is possible to get. According to Mayo Clinic, “Amnesia refers to the loss of memories, such as facts, information and experiences”. In the movie Lucy forgot every day of her life from the time of the accident which is impossible to happen in real life. Sleep triggered Lucy to forget everything in the movie however in real life sleep helps people with amnesia create new memories. The directors of this movie simply created this case of amnesia in order to add comedy and an interesting plot to the movie.

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Cole Thomas
3/4/2014 09:32:45 am

The movie “50 First Dates” is not a strong representation of amnesia. The female character suffering from the mental disability of amnesia relives the same day over and over again, with all of her past memories but cannot create any new ones. The reason that this is not realistic is because she would actually have trouble remembering anything throughout the day. In the movie she has the ability to meet new people everyday and remember them until she falls asleep, where if she actually had such a severe case she wouldn’t be able to remember much of anything any given day. This poor portrayal gives good story, but lacks realism.

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Anna Weinstein
3/5/2014 02:32:42 am

As a viewer, I absolutely enjoyed watching this light comedy which is actually teaches us very important lesson: true love always finds the way to connect people even if one of them suffering from amnesia every day and could not remember the past. Love gives Lucy and Henry power to live happy and enjoy present moment. According to the movie, Lucy suffers from amnesia, but, clearly, her struggling is shown in the movie not for any scientific research purposes, but to show that love can overcome any obstacle.
As we discussed in class and according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, amnesia is “loss of memory occurring most often as a result of damage to the brain from trauma, stroke, Alzheimer disease, alcohol and drug toxicity, or infection. Amnesia may be anterograde, in which events following the causative trauma or disease are forgotten, or retrograde, in which events preceding the causative event are forgotten” Lucy clearly has the anterograde amnesia, but obviously, her symptoms in the movie, different from what they “should” have been in a real life. Also it is important to mentioned, that we don’t really know what actually happened, what kind of injury she received so we can only guess about what kind of amnesia and symptoms she would have in real life. I absolutely agree with S. Bangera that the movie is not an exact representation of amnesia but it definitely show how challenging the life with anterograde amnesia could be.

The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Amnesia (psychology)." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2014

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Brianna Cureton
1/20/2015 12:03:16 am

This movie is not meant to be informative, nor was the audience meant to be those with extensive studies in psychology. It was meant for entertainment. The movie's portrayal of fictional disorder, the "Goldfield's syndrome" does not take away from the entertainment. It successfully gives viewers a feeling of how delicate and complicated the brain is and the trials of those with brain injuries. So, scientifically, the movie may be misrepresenting, but, I think, emotionally it represents the trials of amnesia well.

There are many trials for family members of amnesiacs. Amnesiacs have trouble forming new memories due to significant damage to the brain. After Lucy's car accident she was not able to form new memories. Realizing her condition every morning was not only rough for her, but for her father and brother. Her family decided to cope with this traumatic event by reliving the day before the car accident every day.

On a broader spectrum, Lucy was a victim of TBI, or traumatic brain injury. 17% of people affected by TBI have been in motor vehicle accidents. Although Lucy does not represent this statistic, men are twice as likely to suffer from TBI than women. TBI is the leading cause of death and disability under the age of 44; Lucy follows this statistics.



http://www.sharecare.com/health/amnesia/what-about-caring-someone-amnesia

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Meghan Knecht
1/27/2015 05:26:52 am

Although this film was obviously made humorous and dramatized by the producers, you bring up an interesting point regarding the reality of Lucy's condition. I read an article on psychologytoday.com about Lucy's brain damage in the film. Anterograde amnesia is usually caused by damage to the hippocampus region of the brain. Lucy lost the ability to forge new memories for over 24 hours. Therefore, every morning, her memory is essentially “reset” to the morning of the crash. However, like this review says, towards the end of the movie, Lucy began to have slight memories of the man she met following the crash shown through her paintings of him. According to the article, this type of phenomenon could possibly occur. In reality, with this condition, it is believed that memories are stored and encoded in the brain, but they are unable to be accessed. Amnesia patients can still be affected by the memories they store.

Goodfriend, Wind, Ph.D. "Amnesia in '50 First Dates'" Psychology Today. Sussex
Publishers LLC, 4 Dec. 2012. Web. 27 Jan. 2015.

<https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychologist-the-movies/201212/amnesia-in-50-first-dates>.

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J
2/9/2015 10:45:47 pm

An actual case (possibly influenced by the movie), written up by the Squire group:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2914200/

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Nicole Molino
2/10/2015 08:40:34 am

50 First Dates- 2/10/15

After reading the review of this movie, I was surprised to find that Lucy’s condition, Goldfield’s Syndrome, was fictional. I was even more surprised to learn that a condition quite similar does exist. According to an article about the movie on the Psychology Today website, Lucy’s condition is comparable to anterograde amnesia. Like we spoke about in class, this occurs when there is severe trauma to the hippocampus. The individual’s memory is essentially stuck in time. They are able to make new memories, but those memories are inaccessible. I think it is very strange that Lucy’s condition could be classified as anterograde amnesia (although it is dramatized), yet the film chose to use fictional terminology.

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Junyan Kong
2/11/2015 07:41:53 am

The story took place in a small island of Hawaii. One of the main characters is a beautiful girl called Lucy, after a car accident, Lucy suffered from a rare disease of losing short-term memory. Everyday when she wake up, she forget what happened the day before. Lucy’s memory stayed forever in a car accident the day before. Although another main character Henry hit hard due to Lucy’s condition, Henry did not give up her, and he tried various ways to appear to Lucy every day.
This movie reminds me of an article called “Sleep Preferentially Enhances Memory for Emotional Components of Scenes”. In this article, the authors talk a lot about how dreams effect our memories and how sleep plays an important role in memory. “ Training on such episodic memory tasks...promote the reactivation of neural ensembles during posttraining sleep. Moreover, performance on hippocampally dependent tasks is frequently impaired following posttraining sleep deprivation, which suggests that sleep may be necessary for memory consolidation. These studies strongly suggest that sleep contributes to the consolidation of episodic memories, perhaps through slow, off-line processes that stabilize memorie.” Through some experiments, it shows the close relationship between sleep and memory.
Although Lucy’s disease is caused by the accident, I found that in the movie, after she fell in sleep every day, her memory began to change. It seems sleep have an important influence on Lucy’s memory.

Citation
Jessica D. Payne, Robert Stickgold, Kelley Swanberg and Elizabeth A. Kensinger. Sleep Preferentially Enhances Memory for Emotional Components of Scenes. pp781. Vol. 18. N.p.: Sage Publications, 2008. Jstor. Web. 11 Feb. 2015.

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Amanda Wong
2/12/2015 01:20:56 am

50 First Dates was one of my favorite romantic comedies growing up despite the inaccurate portrayal of amnesia in the main character, Lucy. The review mentions a detail that I never put much thought into prior: when Lucy says that she doesn’t know who Henry is but she dreams of him. As the review states, how exactly would Lucy remember Henry in her dreams if she loses her memory every night? Memory processing occurs during sleep, but in Lucy’s case, this processing doesn’t occur, most likely as a result of damage to her hippocampus. Studies of anterograde amnesia found that the problem is also the result of damage to the basal forebrain, midline diencephalon, retrosplenial cotex and ventral midbrain structures (Mayes). If amnesia involves an issue in forming memories rather than the retrieval of memories, how does she remember Henry in her dreams? These illogical points in the movie demonstrate how the movie doesn’t accurately portray anterograde amnesia. How does Lucy accept her life and the new people in it if she doesn’t remember that she had agreed to accept her life? She would have had to retrieve the memory of accepting this new life or else she would most likely wake up each day in fear and disoriented since the movie ends with her living on a boat rather than at home.



Mayes, A. "003 Theories of Hippocampal Function in Anterograde Amnesia." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (2010): E1-E2. Print.

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Brian Rummel
2/15/2015 05:52:07 am

“50 First Dates” is a romantic comedy about a girl named Lucy who is diagnosed with Goldfield’s syndrome, a fictional memory disorder that prevents her from recalling the events of the previous day. Henry meets Lucy and hits it off and develops strong feeling for Lucy only to discover that she has no memory of him the following day. Henry learns that each time Lucy falls asleep at the end of the day, her brain forgets the previous day’s experiences which is akin to various concepts of anterograde amnesia. However, the description of Goldfield’s syndrome is a bit dramatic and in no way realistic when compared to actual cases of anterograde amnesia. Typical anterograde amnesia symptoms would result in the patient having difficulty completing tasks during the actual day as the patient’s ability to function with short term memories would be hindered from minute to minute instead of from day to day. It’s also interesting that sleep is the trigger for Lucy’s memory of the day to be dumped considering sleep is a very important necessity for our brains abilities to retain memories, especially ‘Stage 4’ sleep. (Fowler). It is not explicitly stated how Goldfield’s Syndrome affects Lucy’s brain, but if it were damaged in a way that would hinder her ability to partake in the complete sleep cycle, she would likely show other symptoms such as hindered tissue and muscle repair, a drop in essential growth and development hormones, and lower energy throughout the day (National Sleep Foundation).

Fowler, M. J., M. J. Sullivan, and B. R. Ekstrand. "Sleep and Memory." Science 179.4070 (1973): 302-04. Web.
"What Happens When You Sleep?" - National Sleep Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2015.

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Lisa Borodyanskaya
2/16/2015 10:23:40 pm

50 First Dates was a really great movie to watch to get a laugh, but sadly it is not realistic. It gives little understanding on what amnesia actually is. What I found most interesting in the movie is the fact that Lucy forgets everything once she falls asleep, but in the end she has memories that are captured in her subconscious mind. In Psychology I learned that sleep is the best time to collect and store new memories, which is why in general it is more important to get sleep before an exam than to study all night. I also think that H.M. ‘s case is very intriguing because he was actually able to build a subconscious memory of his doctor. Even though he never could recognize him in person, my question is whether in the future we can somehow use the subconscious mind as a place for memory storage so that a person with amnesia could recover slowly over time and maybe start to remember things consciously. In one experiment three amnesia patients were tested for unconscious processing in memory recall. After twelve days of testing, their saved memories were compared to those of normal subjects. The results showed a dramatic increase for memories of places and itineraries over sessions, and the absence of improvement of autobiographical memories. This experiment underlines the role of the activation of unconscious processes in recall and the different status of semantic and episodic memory (Lhermitte, Serdaru 1993). It seems that the subconscious memory is strong for amnesia patients. Is it possible we can use this strength to overcome the weakness of their conscious memory?

Lhermitte, F., and M. Serdaru. "Result Filters." National Center for Biotechnology Information. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 29 Mar. 1993. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.

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Cassidy Post
2/25/2015 06:52:03 am

The movie “50 First Dates” is an entertaining movie, but it is not an accurate depiction of anterograde amnesia. When you look up the definition of this, you will find that it is a selective memory deficit in which the individual is severely impaired in learning new information. Lucy’s condition is a fictional version of this condition called Goldfield’s Syndrome, which was caused from a severe trauma to her hippocampus from a terrible car accident her and her father were in. With this condition, Lucy was able to remember everything and everyone before the accident, but basically seemed stuck in time. In the movie however, she is able to make new memories each day which would not be true for the real symptoms of anterograde amnesia. Because we are not told the extent of her brain damage from the accident, we can’t completely understand why she loses all memory again when she sleeps. In most brain traumas, sleep helps the brain retain new information but that is the complete opposite of Lucy’s condition. Although this movie is not an accurate depiction, it does give us some information on how someone with this condition struggles daily.

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Mengqi Ma
2/26/2015 06:56:26 am


"50 First dates" is an interesting movie for entertain. The main problem amnesia in the movie is not quite accurate. The main character hurts her brain and her memory stopped at one day. But sleeping would not erase her memory at all. Also, if her brain injured and has amnesia, she would be confused who Henry is. But as for a movie, it’s really romantic and funny. Her family tried to help her to “hide” her injury and tried to make her happy every day. It’s very touched for audiences when watching this movie.

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wei tao link
3/3/2015 02:09:14 am

This is really a sweet and romantic movie. The main actress amnesia problem that caused by a car accident obstructs the relationship with the main actor. She can not remember yesterday happening things once she wakes up, so the actor tries to repeat the things that happened yesterday again and again to recall her memory. Finally, the degree of the actress's amnesia gets remission. She gradually recalls the memory of painting walls during her childhood. The actor sees the hope of healing her amnesia completely. At last, they become a couple. In reality, whether the amnesia situation can be resolved in the way of the actor trying, which is still discussed livelily in psychology filed. More and more research find that the possibility of healing amnesia is not that high, compared with the amnesia situation in the movie.

"The Neurocritic." The Neurocritic. Web. 3 Mar. 2015. <http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2010/06/unique-case-of-50-first-dates-amnesia.html>.


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Julia Keohane
3/5/2015 05:54:38 am

It is quite clear that 50 First Dates was a movie created for entertainment rather than informative purposes. Lucy’s car accident, restricts her from retaining any new information, which can be classified as anterograde amnesia. Her brain “resets” itself each night, and she wakes up thinking it is presently day the accident occurs every morning when in fact, one whole year has almost passed. I was surprised to learn that Goldfield’s Syndrome, the form of amnesia Lucy has, was in fact fictional, but based off of anterograde amnesia which is caused by damage to the temporal lobe. Had this film been true to the disorder, Lucy would have had to struggle with daily tasks, be unable to stay engaged in conversations after being distracted and many other symptoms. In the film, the doctor also assured Lucy that regaining her short-term memory is almost guaranteed with time, however typically this is not the case in most anterograde amnesia cases, and regaining your short term memory is rare.

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Michaela Michener
3/6/2015 12:26:16 pm

In the film, 50 First Dates, the main character suffers from a fictional form of anterograde amnesia. First of all, I was extremely surprised that the condition she had was fictional. I understand why they chose to use a fictional condition, but I think if they had given her a more factual based condition it would have been more realistic and would have had potential to be more captivating as a film. As mentioned in the review, we are not given enough information regarding her injury. According to MayoClinic, head injuries don’t usually cause severe amnesia, which would be another issue with the film because from what they showed she had stitches and lacerations, which wouldn’t cause the severe symptoms, she suffered from. There was some truth to her condition however, MayoClinic claims, “recent memories are most likely to be lost, while more remote or deeply ingrained memories may be spared,” and this is true in the film. In regards to the famous case of H.M, I believe that if it took him a long period of time to gain a slight subconscious recognition of his doctor, I don’t think it would be possible for Lucy to recognize Henry after only a couple of weeks to months of knowing him.

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Lindsey Glasser
3/10/2015 05:31:55 am

“50 First Dates” was one of my favorite movies growing up. I was unaware that the movie did not have an accurate portrayal of amnesia. Since I watched it a lot as a child, I assumed that because Lucy was in a car accident, the type of amnesia she had was a legitimate diagnosis. Goldfield’s Syndrome is in fact made up. They made up a name for her condition, even though there is a real name out there for the symptoms she suffers. The real name for this is Anterograde amnesia. In the movie, Lucy would live everyday and go to sleep, and lose complete memory during her sleep of what happened the previous day. For example, if she met someone new, she would not remember him or her the next day. As we learned in psychology, she suffered damage to the hippocampus, and her type of amnesia affects time. She is able to create new memories, but unable to remember the memories she made.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychologist-the-movies/201212/amnesia-in-50-first-dates

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