she saw that the epilepsy was now controlled but that his memory impairment was
Although the surgery was partially successful in controlling his epilepsy, a severe side effect was that he
Scoville had excised from both left and right hemispheres – and with it the patient's ability to form new memories. Arguably more important than ...
Studies on Patient H.M. showed that bilateral resection of the
At autopsy, one of them had a substantial lesion in the right hippocampal
In the early 1950s he started removing the hippocampi (you have one in each
A new examination of the brain of Patient H.M. — the man who became an
NOVA: It's been said that H.M. is one of the most studied patients in medical history.
In 1953, radical brain surgery was used on a patient with severe epilepsy.
H.M. is the only patient alive today who has had a near-complete removal