Patient H.M.

In the summer of 1953 maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on a twenty-seven-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. The operation failed, but it left Henry amnesic, unable to create long term memories. This is the story of how we came to under [...]
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In the summer of 1953 maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on a twenty-seven-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. The operation failed, but it left Henry amnesic, unable to create long term memories. This is the story of how we came to understand memory, and better understand ourselves.