H.M.'s brain yields new evidence: 3-D model of famous amnesiac's brain helps illuminate human memory
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 08:01
in Biology & Nature
During his lifetime, Henry G. Molaison (H.M.) was the best known and possibly the most studied patient of modern neuroscience. Now, thanks to the postmortem study of his brain, based on histological sectioning and digital three-dimensional construction, scientists around the globe will finally have insight into the neurological basis of the case that defined modern studies of human memory.