Talk:Henry Molaison

message: Another important point that needs to be adressed here is the ethical issues surrounding this case, especially in light of how neurological procedures used to be performed in the 1950's. A.L. 70.52.112.6 01:29, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ethics 

message: I'm trying to recall the name of a book about memory that was mostly about H.M. Is there a list of books about H.M somewhere? Arvindn (talk) 23:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Try this.  Feezo (Talk) 02:21, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Books

message: I was told by my professor that the film/story Memento was in part inspired by HM's story.  Not sure where this would be sourced or whether it should be mentioned in the article.74.179.135.40 (talk) 12:24, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The film [[Memento_(film)|Memento]]

message: I removed the following paragraph from the "Contributions to science" section because it basically repeated the information in "History" and didn't discuss HM's contributions per se:
:Since the age of 10, the patient HM suffered from increasing epileptic seizures. Eventually the seizures became so intense and frequent that by the age of 27 his doctors suggested removing parts of the brain that were thought to be responsible for his disorder. In 1953, the surgeon Scoville performed brain surgery on HM's medial temporal lobes. Regarding the exact areas of surgery, Scoville & Milner (1957) noted: “bilateral medial temporal lobe resection was carried out, extending posteriorly for a distance of 8 cm from the midpoints of the tips of the temporal lobes, with the temporal horns constituting the lateral edges of resection” (p. 107). HM recovered from the operation, which eased his epileptic seizures to a manageable degree. However, the surgery had induced serious side-effects, which were first described by Scoville & Milner (1957) as “a complete loss of memory for events [...], together with a partial retrograde amnesia for the three years leading up to his operation” (p. 108). Furthermore, they found that “early memories are seemingly normal and there is no impairment of personality or general intelligence” (p. 108).
--David Iberri (talk) 21:37, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicate info 

message: Note: The final box at 2001 on the timeline at http://homepage.mac.com/sanagnos/corkin2002.pdf appears to contradict this final statement - "Xu and Corkin show that H.M. and another severely amnesic patient are unable to learn the Tower of Hanoi puzzle, thereby correcting a long- standing misconception that this task a measure of nondeclarative memory"
:The preceding comment was inserted into the article by .  I am moving it to this talk page where it properly belongs. Looie496 (talk) 21:15, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tower of Hanoi issue 

message: Henry Gustav Molaison had a sad history but that has contributed to the development of the modern theories about the memory. His identity was protected along his life and his codename before his death in 2008 was 'HM'. But now, when he has died and his name is known, I believe that as a form of respect to Henry Gustav Molaison, his famous codename must be changed to his real name because he was a human, not a animal of study.
So I propose:
:- All sentences in this article about he must have his name, avoiding the codename HM.
:- The title of the article should be "Henry Gustav Molaison (HM patient)".
Thanks.
--Afrodriguezg (talk) 14:42, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: See below Egg Centric 22:00, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it ethical to continue calling Henry Gustav Molaison as "HM ptient"? 

message: We have his identity.
He was a human being.
He gets an article under his own name  Egg Centric 22:00, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. --Afrodriguezg (talk) 20:27, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

text: I noticed something weird, maybe it's like this for others, too. Googling (no quotes) "HM patient" and "HM disorder" get me this article, and it treats "Henry Molaison" as a bolded synonym. But "HM memory" gets me HM, lead and all, despite it not really existing anymore. The term "memory" isn't highlighted there. It's like the engine is trying to remember instead of search. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:53, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have moved this article per [[WP:BRD]] 

message: What was his life like after the surgery?  Did he have a job?  A family?  Did he require special care?  Did he spend all his time being examined by psychiatrists?  Grover cleveland (talk) 15:03, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Daily life

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