@treebee Said Good question.
With memory degeneration you tend to keep your personality traits for a long time although you have black spots, there is short term and long term memory loss. Example being a man can remember his wedding day but forgets his wifes name.
Complete memory loss is extremely rare. In those cases again the person keeps thier personality traits but has no recollection of events past.
There is also another condition caused by trauma to the brain. If you smack your head in a certain way the brain is pushed on to bony spikes in the frontal lobe of the skull.
This brain damage actually switches off emotion with memory loss. I saw a case where a man had a car accident, went into coma. He had this type of brain damage. When he got home he had absolutely no feelings for his wife or child. There was no way of ever recovering this. He literally never felt happy or sad.
I guess in some cases it is the end of thier life as they know it.
even if you keep you rpersonality traits, if you dont remember who you are, t he conciousness that IS you is dead.
Mar 08, 2006 @ 08:44:22
It's sad to think...not being able to remember your love ones.
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