Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Henry Molaisonaposs amnesia was the result of a highly risky. May 0 20I n 195 a young man named Henry Gustav Molaison, of Hartfor Connecticut, lost his memory and helped to invent neuroscience.
Apr 2 20Neuroscientists have described for the first time, in exhaustive detail, the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound memory loss. Flashcards Quizlet A neurological process whereby memory traces are made permanent in a personaposs long-term memory this process is disrupted in retrograde amnesia (many memories may be held in a temporary state in long term memory and only preserved if they turn out to have significance for the individual).
Amnesia: Types, Symptoms, and Causes
What parts of his brain were damage and what type of memory deficits did. Henry Molaison - Henry Molaison, known by thousands of psychology students as HM, lost his memory on an operating table in a hospital in Hartford in August 1953.