Amanda Russo’s presentation was very informational, and I enjoy learning about the case studies of the patients she discussed. I learned many things from her presentation. Before the presentation, I have an intermediate knowledge of the human brain and how it functions. I understood how Memory is important for our survival. At the beginning of the presentation, she defines Memory as chemicals changes in the brain that we remember, it’s adaptive to remember for survival. While memory is essential for our lives, there are times when memory can be a bad thing. Memory can be bad in terms of situations dealing with trauma, nightmares, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. During the presentation, we learn about two types of amnesia: Anterograde and Retrograde. Anterograde is an inability to form new memories after the brain damage the inability. Retrograde inability to information learned prior to brain damage. Amanda explains a case of a patient named H.M. He suffered from epilepsy and went through a surgery removed a part of brain medial temporal lobe that was the source of epilepsy. He no longer suffered from epilepsy, but he was having memory-related issues. He couldn’t remember things he had done in the previous day.  Cured his seizures but left him with anterograde amnesia, temporally graded retrograde amnesia. H.M. had to have people look after him due to this condition. From this presentation, I learned about how the medial temporal lobes are important for forming new memories and for recalling recently formed memories. I also learn how the hippocampus and the Amygdala are in the medial temporal lobe. This presentation was wonderful experience and I’m happy that Amanda was able to share it with us.