- History of epilepsy
- The neurosurgeon removed both sides of the anterior temporal lobes 
- Henry could not form new memories- anterograde amnesia 
- He performed well on short-term, but not long-term, memory tasks  
- Mirror-tracing task
- Distinction between declarative and nondeclarative memory

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- Anterograde amnesia - STM was solid; struggled with declarative LTM
- Sword entered nose and injured his brain 
- Damage to the diencephalon, both mammillary bodies; probabe damage to the mammilothalamic tract

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Case Study: H.M. - Henry Molaison

- Motorcycle accident 
- Anterograde declarative amnesia 
- Bilateral damage to cerebral cortex
- Hippocampal shrinkage 
- Shrinkage of parahippocampal cortex 

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