Henry
M. - Brain Connection, January 27,
2006
Nothing to do with Thailand, but interesting: When twenty-seven
year old Henry M. entered the hospital in 1953 for radical brain
surgery that was supposed to cure his epilepsy, he was hopeful
that the procedure would change his life for the better. Instead,
it trapped him in a mental time warp where TV is always a new
invention and Truman is forever president. The removal of large
sections of his temporal lobes left Henry unable to form any new
personal memories, but his tragic loss revolutionized the field
of psychology and made "H.M." the most-studied individual
in the history of brain research.
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