The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Now he did have some memory for previous events in his life that dated way back, okay. Again, hinting at the idea that memories are not necessarily stored in the hippocampus, they're just formed in the hippocampus. So once they've moved out of the hippocampus to other brain areas, he could still keep those memories.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And as a consequence, he lost all explicit memory. Now the consequence of this was that he couldn't exist in normal, everyday life, like most people. So he had to live mostly, not entirely, but mostly in a kind of hospital setting.