A news report about a Canadian man who went missing for 30 years.

1. What types of head trauma can cause memory loss?

2. The fact that his mother last saw him recovering from suicide and so she assumed he had been killed or killed himself.

3. I thought that we could possibly devise something from the fact that he was recovering from suicide, we could link this idea to the fact that he went 'missing' from his home. My first idea was that a character could leave  the house on his own accord to possibly commit an act of suicide, we could create a mothers story on this and then include some scenes of the character wondering from their home to a possible suicide but mainly focus on a mothers point of view of their child going through this and possible other problems.

4. Study on memory loss;                                                                                                      As an individual regains consciousness a variety of neurologically based symptoms may occur: irritability, aggression and other problems. Post- traumatic amnesia (PTA) is also typically experienced when an injured person regains consciousness. PTA refers to the period when the individual feels a sense of confusion and disorientation - Where am I? What happened? - and an inability to remember recent events. As time passes, these responses typically subside, and the brain and other body systems again approach physiological stability. But, unlike tissues such as bone or muscle, the neurons in the brain do not mend themselves. New nerves do not grow in ways that lead to full recovery. Certain areas of the brain remain damaged, and the functions that were controlled by those areas may emerge as challenges in the individuals life.

5. could it have been an attack that caused his injury?

6. Was he hiding his identity?

7. What happened before he lost his memories?

8. From these  3 questions I started thinking about a man who had to go deal with something illegal late at night and some people had caught him on his way to continue this 'illegal' act. this character could get hit with a wepon in his head, when he was found, to protect his identity and the fact that he was dealing with illegal issues, he hid his identity and was able to play off that some of his memories had been erased.

9. Damage to different areas of the brain can have varied effects on memory. The temporal lobes, on the sides of the brain, contain the hippocampus and amygdala, and therefore have a lot to do with memory transition and formation. Patients who have had injury to this area have experienced problems creating new long-term memories. The most studied individual in the history of brain research retained his previously stored long-term memory as well as functional short-term memory, but was unable to remember anything after it was out of his short-term memory. A patient whose fornix was damaged bilaterally suffered severe anterograde amnesia but no effect on any other forms of memory or cognition. In the fictional case of a patient with a cherry-sized tumor pressing on the temporal lobe of his brain, he temporarily suffered total retrograde amnesia, even after surgery was performed to remove the tumor. However, with time, he was not only able to remember everything starting after the surgery, but childhood memories, up to age 12, all returned with clarity.