1. How Brain Damage Affects Memory.

2.  Has a memory spans of just seconds.  Suffered from an infection of herpes encephalitis that targeted the area of the brain related to memory  Medial Temporal lobe damaged, hippocampus and frontal lobes.  Can still read and write and play music  Cannot learn new pieces of music.

3.  The inability of memorizing and remembering new data or input or recall data that has already been learned or memorized. (can be caused by brain injury or infection)  Retrograde amnesia- the failure to recall memories that have been stored before trauma  Anterograde amnesia- the failure to store memories after trauma.  Clive’s case is one of the most severe cases of amnesia reported.

4.  Suffered trauma to the hippocampus and medial temporal lobe.  Hippocampus: belongs to limbic system, plays large role in long-term memory and spatial navigation.  Located within the temporal lobes.  Not only stores the memories also interconnects them with other memories and gives them meaning.  Damage to the hippocampus can hinder your ability to retain data, and even if data is retained all possible meaning might be lost in the case of trauma.

5.  Left temporal lobe-  Clive's damage to the temporal lobes prevents from any shape or form of memory retaining  right temporal lobe is not damaged.  his ability for music and writing seems to be unaffected.