User:AlexGoldy/Patient KC Project Proposal

This article will report the contributions that the study of Patient KC, a man who suffered significant neurological injuries attributable to a motorcycle crash in 1981 at age 30, has made to the field of neuroscience, neurology, and psychology. The article will provide descriptions of KC’s life prior to the accident and the accident itself, as well as immediate injuries incurred and initial surgeries and diagnosis. KC was later diagnosed with anterograde amnesia and temporally graded retrograde amnesia due to injuries to the medial temporal lobes and hippocampus loss (information the Wikipedia page already mentions, but which is not properly cited); accordingly this article will provide relevant information on the nature of these types of amnesias, and the full extent of the long-term amnesic effects KC experienced. Pertinent to these amnesias is an understanding of types of memory; consequently, this article will describe the types of memory for which KC’s accident severely impacted, namely a background of semantic and episodic memory. The article will lastly report the implications of KC’s accident and resultant injuries on the field of neuroscience and the extent to which KC has been used as a model subject in various research papers, as well as the use of his case study for future research in neuroscience and understanding of traumatic brain injury. The research for and construction of this article will be a collaborative effort; workload will be divided evenly, and will reflect a large amount of coordinated effort during multiple meetings throughout the semester. Listed below are several resources we will use as the groundwork for the research for this article.

Rosenbaum, R. "Visual Imagery Deficits, Impaired Strategic Retrieval, or Memory Loss: Disentangling the Nature of an Amnesic Person?s Autobiographical Memory Deficit." Neuropsychologia 42.12 (2004): 1619-635. Print. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.04.010

Rosenbaum, Shayna R. "The Case of K.C.: Contributions of a Memory-impaired Person to Memory Theory." Neuropsychologia 43 (2005): 989-1021. Web. <www.elsevier.com/locate/neuropsychologia>.