Lacunar amnesia
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Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific event. It is a type of amnesia that leaves a lacuna (a gap) in the record of memory.
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This type of amnesia is used as a plot device in the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which a company (appropriately named Lacuna) offers the service of having a specific person erased from someone's memories by removing all memories of them.According to Steven Johnson, (the author of Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life):Furthermore, according to Alex Chadwick speaking on NPR: Source: Analysis: Concepts in memory-loss movies not so far-fetched, NPR Special; 3/23/2004; Alex Chadwick.
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