Mr. Bump: A Case Study In Focal Retrograde Amnesia

I submit this simply because I read all the Mr. Men books as a kid:

Focal retrograde amnesia is where memory for past events and personal information is lost, while the ability to remember new events is spared.

The case is described in Mr Bump Loses His Memory by Roger Hargreaves (ISBN 1844229866).

In this instance, amnesia seems to have been induced by falling out of the window while attempting to smell flowers in a window box...

As Mr Bump's memory difficulties resolve after another minor blow to his head it is unlikely that the return of his memory can be explained by the spontaneous recovery of brain function, as this might only be exacerbated by further damage.

This might suggest that the original amnesia was psychogenic in nature. This make the case a particularly interesting example of this rare phenomena and additionally suggests a good prognosis for Mr Bump's recovery of memory function.

Of course, Mr. Happy may very well be a bipolar depressive. Such a world of psychological trauma in children's books!

A serious case of focal retrograde amnesia [Mind Hacks]