ABSTRACT
S. K. Kime, D. G. Lamb, and B. A. Wilson report the case of a young woman who exhibited dense amnesia following status epilepticus. Because of JC’s success and because he is constantly refining and developing his compensatory system, we present a natural history of its development to date, in the belief that this history will throw light on the processes involved in enabling people with amnesia to develop efficient ways of coping with their memory problems. B. A, Wilson and P. C. Watson consider some of the factors that predict successful use of compensatory strategies in people with non-progressive memory impairment. On admission to rehabilitation, JC was reported as having a marked loss of memory and not being able to remember anything from one minute to the next. JC was assessed on tests of general intellectual functioning, naming, memory, perception, executive skills, and reading.
