As it turns out, Dittrich’s grandfather, neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville, performed the notorious surgery that removed Molaison’s hippocampuses and helped spur extraordinary bodies of research on memory. H.M., that is, Henry Molaison, rivals only Phineas Gage as one of the world’s most famous brain patients. A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets, by Luke Dittrich.
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learn ers!īarb’s just wrapping up her work for IE University in Madrid, Spain this week and, after a weekend visiting historic and beautiful Toledo, is off to Kyiv, Ukraine to work with and speak for Оsvitoria !
