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5 unusual facts about Hyperthymesia


Hyperthymesia

On December 19, 2010, actress Marilu Henner was featured on the US television program 60 Minutes for her superior autobiographical memory ability.

In March 2009 A.J. (American school administrator Jill Price) was interviewed for an article in Wired magazine by Gary Marcus, a cognitive psychologist at New York University.

In the CBS television series Unforgettable, the main character Carrie Wells, played by Poppy Montgomery, possesses superior memory capabilities that she uses to help solve crimes under investigation by the police.

Disciple Manning, the main character in R. Scott Bakker's novel Disciple Of The Dog, also suffers from hyperthymestic syndrome which he characterizes as "simply irritable bowel syndrome of the head: where my dad can't dump his dumps properly, me, I can't dump my memories properly".

Mike Ross (played by Patrick J. Adams) in the television series Suits has a flawless memory and remembers everything he has read or seen with perfect detail, something he uses to bolster his career.


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