PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Temporal Lobe, Henry Molaison, Vladimir Bekhterev
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A brief history of memory: the disease of memory (1881): theodore ribalt called attention to the nature and course of memory loss in dementia. Hi started to noted differences between the brain stems, he noted some de cits in the areas of brain of people who suffered from. Monday, march 23, 2015: william scoville (1954): he was interested in treating individuals who suffered from untreatable epileptic seizures, he looked into the brain, and removed the areas that were causing the seizures. Henry mollison was patient of william, and he underwent surgery for the epileptic seizures, and he was very well treated by removing some parts of the brain. However, he suffered memory loss, he did not even remember he ever had seizures. He was the most researched individual of all times. H. m. "s hippocampus was directed in the surgery, now we know that it is involved in memory - the surgical procedure involved the bilateral resection of the postal.
