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Jan 16, 2012 · Henry Molaison, known by thousands of psychology students as "HM," lost his memory on an operating table in a hospital in Hartford in August 1953. He was 27 years old and...
Henry Gustav Molaison (February 26, 1926 – December 2, 2008), known widely as H.M., was an American who had a bilateral medial temporal lobectomy to surgically resect the anterior two thirds of his hippocampi, parahippocampal cortices, entorhinal cortices, piriform cortices, and amygdalae in an attempt to cure his epilepsy.
Aug 9, 2023 · Henry Gustav Molaison (often referred to as H.M.) is a famous case of anterograde and retrograde amnesia in psychology. H. M. underwent brain surgery to remove his hippocampus and amygdala to control his seizures.
May 16, 2013 · Corkin recounts Henry Molaison’s early life, including key events - like a childhood plane ride that Henry remembered after his surgery - with gentle but thorough prose. Some of these details come from personal conversations with Henry, while others are the result of careful reporting and research.
May 29, 2013 · A botched lobotomy left 27-year-old Henry Molaison unable to form new memories. This is how Molaison's personal tragedy became science’s gain.
Aug 3, 2016 · Aug. 3, 2016. ‘C an you tell me who the president of the United States is at the moment?” A man and a woman sat in an office in the Clinical Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of...
Dec 5, 2008 · On Tuesday evening at 5:05, Henry Gustav Molaison known worldwide only as H. M., to protect his privacy died of respiratory failure at a nursing home in Windsor Locks, Conn. His death was...
Jun 1, 2009 · For five decades, neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin worked with Henry Gustav Molaison, a man known in the annals of science simply as H.M. She spent countless hours talking with him and testing...
Aug 14, 2016 · Known as Patient H.M. to the medical community, Henry Molaison was lobotomized — and lost his ability to create memories in the process. His story is one of tragedy and scientific...
Dec 5, 2008 · Henry Gustav Molaison, known to neuroscientists as H.M., was one of the world's most memorable amnesiacs. He died Tuesday at the age of 82.
