The Concept Of Amnesia In Shaun The Sheep

In both class and in Shaun the sheep we have been memory loss in the form of amnesia has been the topic at hand. Different anatomical regions of the brain could contribute to this kind of memory loss, which the movie does not go to much in-depth in. To determine these anatomical regions, different tests and exercises can be ran to improve accurate diagnoses of the patient. With each of these tests/exercises, patients will express different abilities and disabilities based on which area of memory in the brain has been affected. With each of these different areas the type of memory loss can be extremely different, which is why knowing the correct anatomical region is so important. In the movie Shaun the Sheep, amnesia sets the plot and we will look at what features of amnesia where expressed by our patient the

This type of amnesia hindered the farmer’s ability to remember his past, and who he was. A way that the movie represented this well was with its distinction between his episodic and procedural memory. He was unable to remember who he was, what he did for a job, who his sheep were, all symptoms of damage to episodic memory associated with retrograde amnesia. Procedural memory was well established as still working when he could remember what he does with sheers that he acquires in a barber shop. An aspect of retrograde amnesia that was again presented well was his ability to acquire temporal gradient memories. This occur when he remembers the song that was playing when he first owned his sheep and dog, and this allows him to remember an almost episodic memory. One part that the movie was extreme about entailed the farmer losing all his memories prior to the accident. In class, retrograde amnesia was described as a syndrome that usually left memories from childhood intact. In contrast, the movie portrayed the farmer as having no prior memories at