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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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The study of patient henry Molaison and what it taught us over past 50 years: Contributions to neuroscience
Bigya Shah, Raman Deep Pattanayak, Rajesh Sagar
Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Raman Deep Pattanayak
Department of Psychiatry, A.I.I.M.S., New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-8990.153719
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This section provides a historical perspective and contributions from one of the most studied patients in neuroscience, Henry Molaison (1926-2008), known as H.M during his life to protect his privacy. The peculiar memory deficits seen after an experimental operation for intractable epilepsy led to some critical discoveries pertaining to memory organization in human brain. |
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