Living with Amnesia

The Hippocampus controls emotion, learning, and memory. People know their existence by having a memory. When Mike's hippocampus is damaged, he loses his memory, known as amnesia. Memory loss can also result in depression, because emotion is also disturbed. Mike can remember long term memory like working with his hands, but can't remember short term ones like what people tell him recently. He also remembers his daily routines. Long term potentiation: electrical stimulations trigger memories to occur.