Without memory

Henry Molaison was born in 1926 in a suburb of Hartford in Connecticut. As a child, he was hit by a motorcycle and the injury has completely changed his life. As a result of his brain surgery, he almost completely lost the ability to remember information. At age 16 he had his first seizure. In 1953, Gustav decided on an operation that had neurosurgeon William Beecher. This specialist, desperate to help Gustav conventional methods suggested to carry out a complex operation by removing the temporal lobes of the brain and of the hippocampus. After surgery, seizures do not recur, however, another problem is far more serious.

The fact that Gustav Molison longer memorize new facts in his mind there was only old information, and the events of 10-20 years ago, he remembered very well. I wonder what he was able to learn playing musical instruments, as well as learn how to play a computer game. True, he did not remember when and how he learned it.





Sitting down to play for the same computer game, he could not remember what it is all about, but no problem in playing it - the impression that memorizing passed almost at the level of motility.



Unfortunately, all of these problems and let Gustav custom in life - he had to live with their parents and on, because he could only do a simple cleaning and grocery shopping. At the end of his life, in 2008, he thought that US President Dwight D. Eisenhower is, and the age of himself - 40-something years (although in fact he was already about 80 years).



Source: mirfactov.com