In Memory of H.M.
Just a quick post. Patient HM is a famous patient with amnesia. I haven’t actually had time to look into his story with my own studying going on, but I’ve been watching the microtome video while studying (and when I’m supposed to be studying).
They did a lot of the frontal lobe last night and are right now in the genu/rostrum/body area of the corpus callosum. If you haven’t had neuroanatomy yet, this is where the brain anatomy gets interesting. The middle third in any axis is where most of your smaller structures are located, and also where most of our neuroanatomy lab focused for the last exam.
Exciting stuff.
Here’s the link to the video:
http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php
And some other links:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/12/02/2248233/Brain-of-Patient-HM-Brain-Being-Sliced-Streamed-Live
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_%28patient%29
