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Man loses memory after visiting dentist
01-07-2015 10:54
ROOT CANAL TREATMENT
"I remember I place name in the chair and the dentist numbed me. After that? Emptiness. "So says one William *, a man who lost his power in the dentist chair to form memories. It is a medical mystery, described in the journal Neuro Case. This was reported by the BBC.
ROOT CANAL TREATMENT
It was a day like any other for William, who as a British soldier was on exercise in Germany. In the morning he sports three quarters. Then he went to his office to delete some old emails. He then went to the dentist for a root canal.
Since the treatment, however, he is no longer able to remember things longer than one and a half hours. As a result, he is every morning in the belief that he was in Germany in 2005 and that day he will visit the dentist. Today, he only knows that there is a problem, because he and his wife have put in his smartphone under "Read This First".
The big question is how a small dental surgery could have such an impact on the brains. The dentist had during surgery unaware that anything was wrong. Only when he took off his goggles and looked and saw that the patient was struggling to get up, he knew that something was not quite. Then they called his wife Samantha *. "He was lying on a couch," she remembers the moment she came to pick up her husband. "He stared ahead and what seemed surprised to see me. He really had no idea what was going on. "
ALL AWAY
Around 17:00 William was transferred to hospital, where he stayed for three days. Although his memory have been slightly better, he failed to remember things longer than a few minutes ago. The doctors initially suspected that he had had a stroke. They could find no damage. The man was acquitted, but the mystery remained unsolved.
Doctors and experts sit with their hands in the hair. A clear explanation is not there. The most logical explanation for the rapid memory loss seems to lie in the small neural connections 'synapses' are mentioned. When something happens, it will be stored in these networks. This process of 'consolidation' new proteins are also produced to build synapses in their new form. When this process is blocked, these experiences are quickly forgotten, according to research in rats.
NO ANSWER
Yet it is not clear how by a root canal treatment, the brains have got damaged in this way. "That is the key question," confirms Gerald Burgess, a clinical psychologist in Leicester, told BBC. "I have no answer to it," he says. In literature, he has five similar cases of mysterious amnesia without brain damage found. Although this did not happen after a visit to the dentist, but it happened during periods of physiological stress during a medical emergency. "It could be a genetic predisposition to a type of event as a catalyst needs to put the process in motion," Burgess yeast.
The case of William appeared in Neuro Case journal. Burgess hopes to share this thing other psychologists encourage similar stories and possible explanations.
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