Describe the H.M. case study and what it suggests about memory
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One of the most famous cases of anterograde amnesia involved H.M., who suffered from severe epilepsy that was centered in the vicinity of his hippocampal regions in the temporal lobe and did not respond to medication. In an effort to curb H.M.’s seizures, doctors removed the hippocampal regions in both hemispheres of his brain. The surgery was successful in that H.M.’s seizures were drastically reduced. However, in another sense, the operation was a serious failure. After H.M. re- covered from the surgery, it became apparent that he could no longer store new declarative memories. He could not remember seeing his doctor seconds after the doctor left the room. He was also unable to read an entire magazine article. By the time he got to the end of a long paragraph, he would have forgotten what he’d just read. It was clear that H.M. had severe anterograde amnesia, a condition he lived with for the next 55 years until his death in 2008 at age 82.?
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