Patient MR displays symptoms of having psychogenic retrograde amnesia. First of all, Patient MR doesn’t remember his past history except for his sister’s nickname, yet his skill-set in language and computer programming is intact. This is characteristic of psychogenic amnesia in that patients do not remember autobiographical information, yet they still maintained their semantic and procedural memory. The only problem with patient MR’s case is that he does not remember famous faces, which is uncharacteristic of psychogenic retrograde amnesia. However, for every case of amnesia, there are exceptions. For instance, Patient K was diagnosed with psychogenic retrograde amnesia even though he did not remember public events and figures (Cohen and Banich, 2003). We know that Patient MR does not have …show more content…
We also know that Patient K has retrograde amnesia and not anterograde amnesia because he does not seem to display problems in forming new memories. (Cohen and Banich, 2003). In Hollywood, Jane Doe was unable to remember anything about her former identity. However, she was able to read and speak Chinese and English, fight men, and showed high intellectual skills (Gero, 2015). This is similar to Patient MR in that they both forgot their autobiographical past; however, they were able to speak multiple languages and remember specific skills. I would try to cure Patient MR’s amnesia by first trying to locate his family members by putting his face in a newspaper. I want him to contact as much familiar stimuli as possible so that he may have fragments of memory come back to him and then perhaps suddenly get a flood of memories back. This is how the mother from the movie “24” recovered from her psychogenic retrograde amnesia. She first saw the scrapbook that her daughter made for her, which made her realize that she may have had a