Presentation on Patient HM here

I chose Patient HM as my presentation topic because I had learned about him in one of my psychology classes. Hearing about his unique condition was very interesting and I wanted to inform the rest of the class. Henry Molaison, known as patient HM, was the key to discovering more about the brain and how memory worked. At a young age he was in a bicycle accident, and as a result he started suffering from severe seizures. At 27, they got to the point where he could not lead a normal life. In 1953, a neurosurgeon named William Scoville performed a lobotomy on Molaison to remove parts of the brain where the epilepsy was concentrated.  After the surgery, he no longer had the ability to form new memories, which led researchers to realize that the hippocampus was responsible for memory and disproved past theories. For the rest of his life, Molaison was studied for his interesting brain and has contributed to much of what we know about memory now.