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Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness and family secrets / Luke Dittrich.

by Dittrich, Luke.

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Random House, [2016]

616.85232 H111d

H. M., 1926-2008.

Scoville, William Beecher, 1906-1984.

Amnesiacs -- Biography.

Epilepsy -- Surgery -- United States -- History.

Brain -- Surgery -- Complications -- Case studies.

Brain -- Surgery -- Patients -- Biography.

Memory disorders -- Patients -- Biography.

Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.

9780812992731 (hc.)

Alternate title:

H.M. : a story of memory, madness and family secrets

xv, 440 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes index.

Part I: Origins. The fall ; Crumpled lead and rippled copper ; Dream jobs ; The bridge ; Arline -- Part II: Madness. Pomander walk ; Water, fire, electricity ; Melius anceps remedium quam nullum ; The broken ; Room 2200 ; Sunset Hill ; Experiment successful, but the patient died ; Unlimited access ; Ecphory ; The vacuum and the ice pick -- Part III: The hunt. It was brought into the sea ; Proust on the operating table ; Fortunate misfortunes ; Henry Gustave Molaison (1926-1953) -- Part IV: Discovery. Where angels fear to tread ; Monkeys and men ; Interpreting the stars ; The son-of-a-bitch center ; The MIT research project known as the amnesic patient H.M. -- Part V: Secret wars. Dewey defeats Truman ; A sweet, tractable man ; It is necessary to go to Niagara to see Niagara Falls ; Patient H.M. (1953-2008) ; The smell of bone dust ; Every day is alone in itself ; Postmortem.

In the late 1930s, in asylums and hospitals across America, a group of renowned neurosurgeons worked to develop and refine a new class of brain operation - the lobotomy - that they hoped would eradicate everything from schizophrenia to homosexuality. The most important test subject to emerge from this largely untold chapter was a 27-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison. Journalist Luke Dittrich uses his case as a starting point for a journey from the first recorded brain surgeries in ancient Egypt to the cutting-edge laboratories of MIT. It is also a deeply personal journey: Dittrich's grandfather was the brilliant, morally complex surgeon who operated on Molaison and thousands of other patients. Henry Gustav Molaison (1926 - 2008), known widely as H.M., underwent a bilateral medial temporal lobotomy in an attempt to cure his epilepsy. After the surgery, Molaison developed severe anterograde amnesia. He could not commit new events to memory. He was widely studied from late 1957 until his death in 2008. William Beecher Scoville (1906 - 1984) was a neurosurgeon at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. He performed surgery on Henry Gustav Molaison in 1953 to relieve epilepsy that led to damage of Molaison's hippocampus and left him with memory disorder.

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