Goldfield's syndrome

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Goldfield's syndrome is a fictive name for a specific form of Anterograde amnesia used in the romantic comedy 50 first dates where the character Lucy Whitmore suffers from it after being involved in a car accident. The condition causes her to lose of all her memories of the day, save the memories pior to the accident, due to that she is unable to convert her short-term memories to her long-term memories during her sleep. This results in her waking up every day believing it is the day of the accident, October 13, 2002.