Permanent present

The story of Henry Molaison and how the study of his brain revolutionized neuroscience.

In 1953, at the age of 27, in an effort to alleviate his severe epilepsy, Henry Gustave Molaison underwent a lobotomy that removed part of his hippocampus, allowing him to control his seizures, but resulting in profound amnesia that robbed him of his ability to form new memories. Henry's case has become one of the most important and widely referenced in the field of neuroscience. In *Permanent Present *, with a wealth of detail on the functions of the human brain, renowned neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin explains how she and her colleagues illuminated the stark contrast between Henry's crippling memory impairment and his preserved intellect, bringing readers to the forefront of neuroscience.