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Body & mind 23 min

The Man Who Mapped Memory by Losing It

He met his doctor every week for thirty years. Every week, she was a stranger.

In 1953, a surgeon removed parts of Henry Molaison's brain to cure his epilepsy. The operation worked, but Henry walked out unable to form a single new memory for the rest of his life. For 55 years, he became the most studied human in the history of neuroscience, a man who greeted his doctors as strangers every morning while quietly teaching them how memory actually works.

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