![]() This article was originally published with the title "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons" in Scientific American 310, 5, 76 (May 2014)ĭoi:10. Destroy another node and they lose the ability to read-even though they can still write.” Beyond paying tribute to the scientific advances these patients made possible, Kean humanizes the patients themselves. In this compilation of patients' stories, he details some of the unexpected truths revealed by accidents: “Destroy one small node of neurons, and people lose the ability to recognize fruits and vegetables, but not other food. ![]() William Skoville removed H.M.s hippocampus. ![]() In an attempt to cure him, daredevil surgeon Dr. “Despite the (often overhyped) advances of fMRI and other brain-scanning technologies, injuries remain the best, and only, way to infer certain things about the brain,” writes journalist Kean. When Henry Molaison (now widely known as H.M.) cracked his skull in an accident, he began blacking out and having seizures. ![]() Some people's tragedies have been science's miracles, particularly in the field of neuroscience, where researchers have long relied on rare brain traumas to reveal the workings of the mind. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery ![]()
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