Even more interesting, when Sacks left the room and returned a few minutes later Jimmy had no memory of ever meeting the doctor! He believed there was some sort of practical joke being played on him. When asked how old he is he believed he was a young man, he was shocked by his appearance when Sacks asked him to look in a mirror. When Jimmie was telling his life story, Sacks realized that he began to talk about his post World War 2 years as if it was the present. It seemed that until a certian point, his long term memory was intact. Jimmie was able to remember many details of his early life. Jimmie was a 49 year old patient of Sacks in 1975. In his book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat, Oliver Sacks, a renowned neurologist chronicles the story of Jimmie. These disorders can be devastating to the quality of life of the sufferer and families watch as their loved one slips into a state that is unrecognizable. There are many disorders that have an effect on the quality memory. Memories build upon themselves and shape our personality.Many may argue that these memories and how we interact with them, are what MAKE us human and separate us from animals. Memories make us who we are, they shape how we react to the people and events around us. Without memory we are merely biological organisms floating through time and space.
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