Comments on: Remembering H.M. and his Fascinating, Damaged Brain

By: ring

ring — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:18:28 +0000

74. Nice read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch as I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!

By: Response to Larian

Response to Larian — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:36:42 +0000

Yes…they are the kids in he UK that were born without hippocampi and they experienced some of the same development issues as H.M.

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:00:29 +0000

Aren’t there two relatively celebrated cases in the UK about folks with no ability to retain any new memories? I know one is a former musician/conductor in England who is now in his 50′s I think, and the other is a young man in his 20s. Their names totally escape me at the moment.

By: Eliza Strickland

Eliza Strickland — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:24:03 +0000

I think Rose was responding to the other posts that I linked to, which do deal with deliberately erasing memories (in mice).

By: john

john — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:31:34 +0000

interesting replies but as pointed out how smoking relates to brain sugery is only know to the items poster. having lived since january of 1970 with less than half of the r.t.l.(truck struck) i am amazed how he unlike myself survied being in the care of the medical profession.
if you want to find out what hell on earth is like i suggerst you take the effort to contact a abi owner, not a abi survivour, we own them and the problems that for whatever reason are sourced by them we NEVER survive them or the experiments that the medical espicially the nueorpsychs concoct for us. if you have the ability to or the stomach to watch it did up the videos put out as educational films and literature directed to all the classes of persons charged with caring for abi owners under the assitance of the province of ontario’s and the federal canadian government assited programs run by amos rolloiter as he worked in the hamilton canada psyciatric and chedoke hospitals of mcmaster unoiversity. the problem will be in finding the footage invoving a man named wade. dont eat before you view the films.
john

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:13:55 +0000

Rose, I’m not so sure what you mean. This article had nothing to do with erasing memories, anti-smoking drugs, or cures being worse than the ailment. The surgery happened 55 years ago. I was not around 55 years ago but the chances of him having brain damage after surgery were probably very high and well known to H.M. before consenting to the surgery. It was probably a last resort.

By: Len

Len — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:09:11 +0000

The public will be able to “Google earth” H.M.’s brain? The mind reels. (Okay, okay, pun intended.)

By: Rose Balcom

Rose Balcom — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:00:17 +0000

Anything involving the brain and brain chemistry has to be taken ultra-seriously. To even consider erasing a drug memory by altering the brain need only to look at the anti-smoking drug Champix. Then go look at the side effects of Champix which include depression, suicidal thoughts, mania brought on by Champix in some people. While your at it, look up the ‘class action’ lawsuit against the makers of Champix. You’ll have to decide if the side effects aren’t worse than the drug addiction. There are plenty of illegal drug use rehab programs around. How many program can cure the side-effects of these prescription drugs? Could be the cure could be worse than the ailment. chilly