Man with No Memory | The Accident | 1
American Innovations
English - November 11, 2021 08:05 - 41 minutes - 38 MB - ★★★★★ - 4K ratingsScience Kids & Family Education for Kids steven johnson science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Even as recently as the early 1950s, we didn’t understand that there were different types of memory, or how the brain processed and stored memories. Then, in 1953, a radical surgery by a reckless doctor gave us tremendous insights into how human memory works. Those scientific gains came at a terrible cost, however. The surgery left the patient, Henry Molaison, a profound amnesiac -- completely incapable of forming new memories. This is his story.
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