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IMAGE: Dr. Richard Naud, an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine's Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and in the Brain and Mind Research Institute.
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The famous patient Henry Molaison (long known as H.M.) suffered damage to his hippocampus after a surgical attempt to cure his epilepsy. As a result, he had anterograde amnesia, which meant that things he learned never made it past his short-term memory. Though his memories of childhood remained intact, H.M. might meet with his doctor and five minutes later say, 'Oh, I don't think I've ever met you. What's your name?'.

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