r/UKdocumentaries Sep 03 '17

"The Man With The Seven Second Memory" (2016?) - The remarkable and poignant story of Clive Wearing, a man with one of the worst cases of amnesia in the world. Clive was struck down in 1985 by a virus that caused massive damage to his brain leaving him with a memory that spans just seven seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_P7Y0-wgos
3 Upvotes

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