Mens health6 Aug 2024What It's Like When Your Brain Can't Form New MemoriesHenry Molaison was perhaps the most-experimented-on person in history. At the age of 27, parts of his brain were surgically removed to curtail his severe seizures. A doctor destroyed most of his hippocampus, an area now known to be central to memory, as well as some closely connected structures. The result: He retained most of his existing memories, but was nearly unable to form new ones.
