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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 13 > Henry Molaison’s amnesia was a boon for researchers

Henry Molaison’s amnesia was a boon for researchers

By Thomas H. Maugh II / The Bulletin
December 13, 2008

For 55 years, he was known to the world only as H.M. or Henry M., the survivor of a brain surgery that went catastrophically wrong, leaving him with a form of amnesia that prevented him from collecting any new memories and living in a pre-1953 world. But when he died Dec. 2 from respiratory....

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