Where soap operas no longer know what to do to make a turn of events, the writers resort to spend resources of amnesia of the characters. Any player of any soap opera has suffered a sudden and violent blow on his head from one day to the other was erased from his mind who he is, where it is and that her boyfriend was not her lost brother of course, fundamental fact that just had discovered the previous day.
The amnesia is one of the health problems common in television fiction. But in its use and abuse, we lose to know their real characteristics. This disorder in memory can occur in different ways, due to brain trauma, drug or psychological conditions.
Anterograde amnesia is one in which new memories are not stored in the long term are better able to remember what happened 20 years ago that what happened two days ago. And on the opposite side is the transient global amnesia, in which you have difficulty accessing old memories.
We also have retrograde amnesia. Who suffer from it have difficulty remembering what had happened before the state began its impact. This type of amnesia is what we see in soap operas completely exaggerated. While the characters in fiction do not remember anything of his past, in real life retrograde amnesia may be transient and dispersed: some things are remembered and others cost more. As an example, those who have suffered accidents and can not remember the moment when it happened and how it happened.
According to Myriam Mongrain, a psychologist at York University in Canada, the exaggerated retrograde amnesia in the movies we have very few examples in real life. In addition, victims are likely to quickly recover the memory. except that it is a severe problem of Alzheimer’s disease or addiction to drugs.
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