Neuroscience
Wherein the author finds that the fish gets it right and is pleased with the homage to Patient H.M.:
Sallie Baxendale. Memories aren't made of this: Amnesia at the movies. British Medical Journal 2004; 329: 1480-1483 (18 December). [doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7480.1480]
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Now, where is that ad for the Lacuna Clinic? (grin) After all, Eternal Sunshine is BrainBlog's movie of the year!
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Neuroscience
Amnesia At The Movies: Eternal Sunshine, Memento, and Finding Nemo
Wherein the author finds that the fish gets it right and is pleased with the homage to Patient H.M.:
Sallie Baxendale. Memories aren't made of this: Amnesia at the movies. British Medical Journal 2004; 329: 1480-1483 (18 December). [doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7480.1480]
Full text:
Article [HTML]
Article [.pdf]
Now, where is that ad for the Lacuna Clinic? (grin) After all, Eternal Sunshine is BrainBlog's movie of the year!
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Scene from 50 First Dates with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. 50 First Dates maintains a venerable movie tradition of portraying an amnesiac syndrome that bears no relation to any known neurological or psychiatric condition (Baxendale, 2004).That isn't...
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"Reid Lab Movies" of cat and rat visual cortex during visual stimulation, at: http://neuro.med.harvard.edu/site/reidweb/movies.html...
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