NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Henry Molaison lived for decades with profound amnesia, but in death he will be remembered for his groundbreaking contributions to understanding the brain. Mr. Molaison, who ...

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MOLAISON, Henry G. Henry G. Molaison, 82, of Windsor Locks, died on Tuesday (December 2, 2008). He is known in the medical and scientific literatures as “the amnesic patient, H.M.” Henry was born in ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. In 1953, 27-year-old Henry Gustave Molaison underwent an experimental brain surgery in an ...

In the case of Patient H.M. (whose actual name was Henry Molaison), Luke Dittrich’s story has so many layers that I hardly know where to begin. The first was the revelation, published just prior to ...

The Diane Rehm show spent a full hour on Luke Dittrich’s first book. It’s been featured on Wired.com and excerpted in The New York Times Magazine. But this last coup triggered a backlash — a letter-to ...

The story of Henry Molaison is a sad one. Known as Patient H.M. to the medical community, he lost the ability to create memories after he underwent a lobotomy to treat his seizures. He did earn a ...

Every introductory psychology student by now knows the legendary if somewhat mystifying tale of “Patient H.M.,” the man with no hippocampus and, therefore, no short-term memory. However, even those ...