patient H.M.
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Patient H.M. (Henry Molaison) was a famous neurological case study whose profound memory loss after brain surgery provided crucial insights into how human memory is organized in the brain.
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| instanceOf |
case study subject
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human ⓘ neurological patient ⓘ |
| ageAtSurgery | 27 ⓘ |
| birthName | Henry Gustav Molaison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brainDonatedTo | science ⓘ |
| brainSectionedAt | The Brain Observatory, University of California, San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-02-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2008-12-02 ⓘ |
| demonstrated |
dissociation between declarative and procedural memory
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hippocampus is critical for forming new declarative memories ⓘ role of medial temporal lobe in memory consolidation ⓘ |
| ethicalNote | identity kept confidential as H.M. during his lifetime ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
H.M.
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Patient H.M. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| identityRevealed | after his death his full name was made public ⓘ |
| impactOnField |
founded modern cognitive neuroscience of memory
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influenced theories of memory systems ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to understanding human memory
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severe anterograde amnesia ⓘ |
| medicalCondition |
anterograde amnesia
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epilepsy ⓘ partial retrograde amnesia ⓘ |
| memoryDeficit |
inability to form new long-term episodic memories
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limited retrograde memory for events before surgery ⓘ |
| memoryPreserved |
procedural memory
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short-term memory ⓘ working memory ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
mirror-tracing task experiments
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perceptual learning experiments ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Manchester, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Windsor Locks, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postmortemStudy | high-resolution brain imaging and sectioning ⓘ |
| residence |
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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nursing home in Connecticut ⓘ |
| showedInExperiments | improved motor skills without conscious recollection of training ⓘ |
| studiedBy |
Brenda Milner
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Suzanne Corkin NERFINISHED ⓘ neuroscientists worldwide ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
books on memory and neuroscience
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numerous scientific papers ⓘ |
| treatedBy | William Beecher Scoville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| underwentProcedure |
bilateral medial temporal lobe resection
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surgical removal of amygdala tissue ⓘ surgical removal of large portions of hippocampus ⓘ surgical removal of surrounding medial temporal cortex ⓘ |
| yearOfSurgery | 1953 ⓘ |
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