https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql en-us 2017-04-28 18:13:27 UTC 2024-10-13 10:28:22 UTC hello@padlet.com 1506031 https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/168957149 Cameron Miller is a 14 year old boy who has been abused sexually and physically by his father Hank Miller.  His father has murdered many other kids too. Hank leaves the newspaper clippings of the boys he's killed in the basement, which is where he also makes Cameron stay.  Cameron has the idea to try to become one of the kids that are in the missing ads in the paper because his dad tells him that he will get in trouble too. So he runs away and takes up the identity of Neil Lacey, but now he has to try to become a completely different person. ]]> 2017-04-28 18:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/168957149 1506031 https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/168958644 I personally like this book just because of the short lived suspense of the book.  Most psychological thrillers are always super long, but Counterfeit Son was good and shorter. I liked how there are actual little hidden things in the plot foreshadowing the end of the story.  
 I think that the way amnesia and PTSD are portrayed in the story are accurate.  It helps show the emotions of these ailments by showing Cameron/Neil's thoughts and reactions to things.  A lot of the book Cameron/Neil are just confused and very scared.   
  I would recommend this book to others. I actually have recommended it to people in the past because it was just one of those books that I never forgot about.   I read it for the first time in 8th grade and I have read it 2 or 3 times since then too.]]> 2017-04-28 18:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/168958644 1506031 https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/169761842
This part in the book is the part where I was really just kind of surprised how it went.  Alphin makes you think that its just Cameron Miller getting caught in the act of trying to switch families.  However, its actually been Neil Lacey all along. ]]> 2017-05-03 18:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/169761842 1506031 https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/169763493 1. The more severe the case the farther back people can't remember
2. People can eventually get some memories back
3. Caused by damage to the hippocampus part of the brain
4.  Traumatic events and head injuries are leading causes
5. Electroconvulsive therapy is sometimes used to help
6. Retrograde amnesia is more severe than anterograde, because with anterograde people can remember events before the trauma
7. Very rare condition
8.  People with amnesia find it hard to imagine the future
9.  Majority of amnesia cases resolve without treatment
10.  People with amnesia sometimes believe in false memories]]> 2017-05-03 18:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/169763493 1506031 https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/169766906 2017-05-03 18:30:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/169766906 1506031 https://padlet.com/1506031/tmrgc2gcl2ql/wish/169768741 1. Winter, W. (2016). Naïve Beliefs About the Natural World in a Case of Childhood Onset Amnesia. Psychological Thought, 9(2), 259-271.
2. Hui, C., & Wyble, B. (2016). Attribute Amnesia Reflects a Lack of Memory Consolidation for Attended Information. Journal Of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performance, 42(2), 225-234
3. Moon, Y., Moon, W., & Han, S. (2016). The structural connectivity of the recurrent transient global amnesia. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

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