The laboratory at night, the lights down low. An iMac streams a Pat Metheny version of an Ennio Morricone tune while Dr. Jacopo Annese, sitting in front of his ventilated biosafety cabinet, a small ...

Taking a cue from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Columbia Pictures and producer Scott Rudin (seen above) have acquired the rights to make a film based on the life of Henry Molaison. Molaison ...

Reporting from Hartford, Conn. — Henry Molaison lived in relative obscurity, but he possessed one of the world’s most famous brains. Known to generations of scientists and psychology students as H.M., ...

After Henry Molaison's death, the science didn't end. Molaison's brain was dissected into 2,401 slides. To create the paper-thin slides, Molaison's brain was frozen in gelatin and carefully divided ...

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In 1953, Henry Molaison's world was turned upside down by a catastrophic brain operation designed to cure his epilepsy. However, unbeknownst to him, this personal tragedy was the beginning of an ...

Henry Gustave Molaison was perhaps the most famous subject in the history of neuroscience, but for most of his life he was known to the world only as “Patient H.M.” In 1953, experimental surgery to ...

Neuroscience took a big step forward when it scanned and sliced one of the most famous brains it has ever studied. The brain of H.M., now revealed to be Henri Gustav Molaison, has been under the ...

Details of Henry Molaison’s early life are scanty. His father was an electrician who moved from Louisiana to Hartford in the 1920s. Henry was born there on Feb. 26,1926. He remembered roller-skating, ...

I first met Henry Molaison more than half a century ago, during the spring of my third year in graduate school. I have tried to resurrect the details of my interactions with him that week, but human ...