Patient H.M. : A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets (Hardcover)

from mcdenis

Henry Gustave Molaison (b.1926) sometime in the 1930' was knocked down by a bicyclist in Hartford Connecticut and suffered brain trauma. He became known as "patient H.M." and was the case study for neuro-scientist-surgeons and others interested in the brain. Throughout the book, we are taken on a...

from joyhclark

I was on my predoctoral internship when H.M. died, and I remember watching the brain cutting as it streamed live over the internet. H.M. was one of the first case studies I learned about in graduate school, and I use him frequently in my own teaching to illustrate basic neuroscience concepts. In ...

from Darcia

The appeal of this book reaches far beyond learning about patient H.M., though his story is indeed a fascinating centerpiece. The author's grandfather is the doctor who performed H.M.'s lobotomy, along with countless more lobotomies on patients who were not all willing participants in this experi...

from MontzaleeW

Patient H.M. by Luke Dittrich is a book about the history of brain surgery in general but I was more hoping it was about the patient HM. The writing was excellent and the information of the history of the the various treatments used on people with "mental illness" was interesting and appalling at...

from c.archer

The brain and how it functions can be fascinating. The author does a good job of presenting this in a readable, albeit technical way. He is the grandson of an early pioneer in the treatment of mental illness surgically through lobotomy. Yet, his grandfather's most famous patient, Henry Molaison o...