Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H. M. by Suzanne Corkin

No one is better suited to write Henry Molaison’s story than neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin.

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No one is better suited to write Henry Molaison’s story than neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin, said Ken MacQueen in Maclean’s. The young researcher met Molaison justnine years after he underwent a 1953 brain operation that caused amnesia so severe he could remember almost nothing for more than 30 seconds. Corkin worked closely with Molaison across the next 46 years as she and other researchers tried to learn from his brain—“perhaps the most studied in medical history.” She came to see him as more than a patient. When he died five years ago, at 82, she even delivered a eulogy.

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