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The Mystery of Benjamin Kyle: A Man Found with Complete Amnesia
TLDR Benjamin Kyle, a man found in a dumpster with complete amnesia, remains unidentified despite extensive efforts to determine his identity. Amnesia, a condition characterized by forgetfulness, can be caused by various factors and can affect different parts of the brain.
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Amnesia is discussed in relation to memory, with a specific example of a man named Clive Wearing who has a very poor memory and experiences amnesia every few seconds.
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Clive Wearing has both retrograde and interior grade amnesia, and one of his earliest symptoms was not being able to remember his daughter's name.
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Short-term memory holds immediate information in the front of your mind, and if it's important, it gets sorted into long-term memory through an encoding process.
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There are different types of long-term memory, including explicit or episodic memory, procedural or implicit memory, semantic memory, emotional memory, and spatial memory.
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Amnesia is a condition characterized by forgetfulness, often caused by neurological damage or injury to the brain, such as from a stroke, lack of oxygen, drugs, alcohol, blunt force trauma, tumor, or viral infection.
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Neurological amnesia is often permanent and stable, unless it is associated with a degenerative brain disease, and it can vary in severity depending on the extent of the damage to the brain.
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Amnesia can be caused by extreme stress, preventing new memories from forming, and dissociative amnesia is often temporary and can be triggered by a memory cascade.
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Amnesia can attack different parts of the brain, affecting language and memory, and while explicit or episodic memory may be lost, implicit or procedural memory is often still intact.
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In some cases of amnesia, individuals with memory loss can rely on routines, habits, and external aids like journals and smartphones to navigate through daily life.
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Amnesia detection involves looking for warning signs such as memory loss, confabulation, tremors, confusion, and disorientation, and it is important to seek medical attention and undergo tests like CAT scans or MRIs to determine the cause.
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Benjamin Kyle, a man found in a dumpster in 2004 with complete autobiographical episodic amnesia, remains unidentified despite extensive media coverage and efforts to determine his identity.
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Benjamin Kyle, a man found in a dumpster with complete amnesia, is unable to obtain a new social security number and remains unidentified, despite efforts to determine his identity.
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