{"id":120863,"date":"2023-11-26T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T18:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=120863"},"modified":"2023-11-26T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T18:09:09","slug":"brit-struck-with-rare-brain-virus-that-causes-memory-to-be-wiped-every-30-secs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/world-news\/brit-struck-with-rare-brain-virus-that-causes-memory-to-be-wiped-every-30-secs\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit struck with rare brain virus that causes memory to be wiped every 30 secs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Whenever Clive Wearing sees his wife, he welcomes her as if they haven't seen each other for years.<\/p>\n

    But then literally, within the blink of an eye, everything is forgotten and his memories are wiped clean once more. For four decades, the 84-year-old has believed he's only recently woke up from a comatose state.<\/p>\n

    But the talented musician is in fact living with the most devastating case of amnesia in medical history so far after being struck with a rare brain virus in 1985. After a mild case of herpes that passed the blood-brain barrier, Clive experienced both anterograde and retrograde amnesia which means he can't remember the past and is "stuck in the present,' unable to create new memories.<\/p>\n

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    He has no recollection of his childhood or the names of his children from a previous marriage. His memory lasts between seven and 30 seconds but strangely, he remembers how to play music and how much he loves his wife.<\/p>\n

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    Before tragedy struck, Clive was a pianist and musician known for editing Orlando de Lassus\u2019s works. He had a career as a tenor lay clerk at Westminster Cathedral and was a chorus master at Covent Garden and with the London Sinfonietta Chorus.<\/p>\n

    He was working for BBC Radio 3 and in his mid-40s when he contracted the virus. Since then he spends every day "waking up" every 20 seconds or so, "restarting" his consciousness once more.<\/p>\n

    Clive's wife Deborah described their devastating plight in her 2005 memoir, Forever Today. She wrote: "His ability to perceive what he saw and heard was unimpaired. But he did not seem to be able to retain any impression of anything for more than a blink. <\/p>\n

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