Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets

Luke Dittrich

480 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science reflective slow-paced
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In the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on a twenty-seven-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. The operation failed to eliminate Molaison's intractable seizures, but it...

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