HM case study

HM case study

1. Background

   • He had brain surgery to stop epilepsy
   • 1955
   • Got hit by a bicycle at age 7
   • Began having vacant memories
   • Body seized at 10 years old

2. Area of brain damage

   • Hippocampus (hunch)

3. Problems with memory

   • Didn't know the day
   • Didn't know what happened yesterday
   • Couldn't form new memories
   • Problems with his eposidic memory (diary)

4. Any memory still intact?

   • Could talk
   • IQ
   • could remember childhood
     • Couldn't remember after surgery
   • did mirror tracing
     • test to see if he could learn new skills
   • Could learn new motor skills

5. Other

   • at age 27 having huge seizures
   • died in 2008, age 82
   • He was restricted to less than 100 researchers
   • He thought time had stopped when reaching 16
   • He suffered with retrograde memory loss