How Do You Make Memories?

What if you couldn’t remember anything past 30 seconds? Let us introduce you to a man named Henry Molaison who was diagnosed with anterograde amnesia. He couldn’t form new memories.

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Sources:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/may/05/henry-molaison-amnesiac-corkin-book-feature
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140128/ncomms4122/full/ncomms4122.html
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/06/187328826/the-patient-who-let-us-peek-inside-a-brain-in-present-tense
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25154857
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/stepping-into-the-digital-brain-library-the-google-earth-of-neuroscience/
http://www.nature.com/news/postmortem-of-famous-brain-explains-why-its-owner-couldn-t-learn-1.14607
http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v11/n7/fig_tab/nrn2850_F1.html
http://neuroscience.uth.tmc.edu/s4/chapter07.html

Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging#/media/File:Researcher-test.jpg