What happens when you remove the hippocampus? - Sam Kean 

Name of the documentary plz

@@rupalkale6528 i saw that Documentary in discovery science channel

Awwwwww

Ohnoooo

@XYXYZ at least he would forget it, as if it never happend.

Bonkers lol

susan jarman That’s... very ironic.

Deep...

That's poetic.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh I dont get it.......

Really love that story. Love that outlook

@@abca8035 assuming that he said that his father “had Alzheimer’s” he probably passed away

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from a romantic novel? you must read strange romance books LOLL

You should totally write a romance novel about HM. :)

Yeah.....it's like a fantasy romance novel. It's like when when the two lovers are connected from their past life. This is just my assumptions tho....it can be different from whatever you thought.

A romantic novel?? Didn't know the history of neuroscience is now considered romantic

@@hiiloveu1521 they said the passage, idk what you get from the comment

He is and will always be a hero :) that is nice

That's sad

Hans Bauer But he soon forgot.

:-(

@Hans Bauer i like how you fight for positivity😻

I imagine it'd be quite dreadful to look into a mirror. Shaving must have been the single scariest event in his day to day life.

TrindyForce Why would shaving be a scary event for him??

Pirosbor the mirror obviously.

pokee9 um....sorry.....what's scary about a mirror??

Seriously now? Try to comprehend you; your self at 20 has the memory of your 20 year old face. now I want you to get up and walk to the bath room look in the mirror and what you see is a 80 year old man staring back at you in abject horror when your genuinely expected to see yourself as a 20 year old. Now think about it this, H.M died thinking he was young. thats why a mirror is terrifying.

Exactly There was unparalleled research and development in Neuroscience thanks to him, but no matter how much people thank him, from his perspective he was alive but no memories, memory itself make us who we are as they propel our decisions He shall be remembered but only as a Test Subject ={

We neuropsychologists know him very well

*a forgetting hero

XD Lol

He's not forgotten?! Quite the contrary; everybody studying psychology or neurology knows his name.

A forgotten forgetting hero

haileyxin he would remember that person. He just can’t form new memories

Ziran yeah but he means forget not form

there was a movie based on this idea in india where he forgets his girlfriend too...... the movie name is ghajini

Unlucky

There is another peculiar case which might interest you ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vwigmktix2Y.html

+Prin Nana But his case has helped further neuroscience more than most, if not all, other cases. In a way, it's an honor.

+Prin Nana he also won't remember it... at all.

+Jennifer Tung You wouldn't remember anything either if you were dead. ;)

+Prin Nana Well at least he was useful, unlike everyone else.

+Prin Nana like all of us, tools of others for ourlves

+Álvaro Lopes but if he couldn't form long term memories there would be no favorite movie or game.

+Deathcap Rabadon (Deathcap9087) Well, he only forgot a certain amount of information. If he had a favorite movie say 10 years ago, he'd still remember.

Tobias Weckop Then he would already remember what happened in the movie, so its always like seeing it a second time( or third depends on how many times he's watched it before the surgery), so not as exciting as seeing a movie the first time.

Did they have the facility to replay movies? Just just turned on the tele to old movies because he seemed to enjoy them, but how could he remember the beginning of the movie by the time it got to the end? Always little mysteries inside bigger ones.

+Álvaro Lopes Dude they didn't have video games that long ago..Maybe while he was older...

At the very least you can write and y'know put notes to help remember

I feel so sorry for you I hope your better now 😔💗

Yes, but he helped thousands more people NOT lose their memories. .

Yes i didnt "forget" that fact :D ~respect

I have alzheimer's but i forget to give a f*ck about it ! xD

ShaolinMonkster liar u dont have anything if u did u wouldn't be able to do all ur dance moves! lol

do you remember writing this comment ;-;

first comment inspite having 1k likes

@@sathvikv.r5974 lol haven't been around here for 6 years, hadn't noticed

@@AlyssaTaylor9 Big up for replying after 6 years 🤯😁

@@AlyssaTaylor9 six long years! how's life to you now?

@@blupatches3030 Pretty good thanks! I'm working on my master's degree and am engaged. Life's okay!

+Mara LG Do you remember writing this comment?

Mara LynneG. Sarcastic/Joking around.

was your hippocampus only partially removed?

My amygdala & hippocampus on the right side, yes. There is a tinyyyy bit of the hippocampus left

Mara since you've had your amygdala removed do you still experience fear? do you worry a lot? because the amygdala is meant to be the part of the brain that is associated with fear and anxiety disorders like GAD, OCD and PTSD.

I do the same with my school locker

I recomend you change your password every 14 days, atkeast the most importants. Good excercise of mind and people in my field of work dont get to your personal data as easy.

sleep sleeo ^_^

So you rely on muscle memory? Smart, I do that too. *EVEN I DON'T REMEMBER MY PASSWORD*

I do this when I cant remember a pe I'd on the piano.

THIS

Most likely not, she probably just damaged it in some way. (Or was born with a birth defect that made it not function)

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He probably wouldn't remember it.

I know this is kinda late but how did you manage to access your RU-vid account? Or perhaps you had your password written down somewhere...?

Hazel Chief-rabbit Pen and paper...symptoms are better now with better control of seizures. But running out of meds feels like falling down a rabbit hole, forgetting simple things that I know should be easy to remember. Very unpleasant.

+Kenneth Place Yeah, I could imagine. I mean, my mum has trouble remembering so she too has to put all her accounts and passwords on pen and paper, and she doesn't even suffer from epilepsy or anything of the sort. Well, I hope things get better for you though. :)

Kenneth Pace do you remember writing this comment?!

Kenneth Pace Well at least for you each game in the new super Mario bros series ACTUALLY FEELS NEW

+Jew Macintosh error 404 ex not found

Oops, the previous memories including your exs will stay there, you just cannot make the new ones

there better way. there tv show Blindspot. There drugs that can remove your memories selectively. For example propranolol it removes memories of fear. It works as you remember something scary memory extracted, but drug blocks putting it back. But it only works for removing fear/anxiety component of memory. But there other drugs that may remove everything in similar way. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_erasure

Selective memory suppression is the idea that someone can consciously block an unwanted memory. There are many different therapeutic techniques or training that has been done to test this idea with some success. Many of these techniques focus on blocking the retrieval of a memory using different suppression techniques to slowly teach the brain to suppress the memory. Although some of these techniques have been useful for some people it has not been shown to be a clear cut solution to forgetting memories. Because these memories are not truly erased but merely suppressed the question of how permanent the solution is and what actually happens to the memories can be troubling for some. Selective memory suppression is also something that can occur without a person being consciously aware of suppressing the creation and retrieval of unwanted memories. When this occurs without the person knowing it is usually referred to as memory inhibition; the memory itself is called a repressed memory. Interruption of memory reconsolidation One of the ways scientists have attempted to erase these memories through suppression is by interrupting the reconsolidation of a memory. Memory consolidation of a memory is when a person recalls a memory, usually a fearful one, it becomes susceptible to alteration, and then gets stored again. This has led many researchers to believe that this time period is the best time for memories to be altered or erased. Studies have shown that through behavioral training results showed that they were able to erase memories by tampering with memories during the reconsolidation phase.

But your ex would still be in your long term memory.......

Your picture fucks with my hippocampus...

Why thank you, But that doesn't make me feel less sad for that guy

Jyothir Adithya Same here. I was kidding. I can't imagine living life like that. I'm not a completely heartless bastard.

lmao

lolll stop ittt,, 😂

Tomake credit card xvideos link or is plotting

XD

Damn! I can never unsee this comment!

good question. maybe he only partially followed. I don't know.

Not sure but while watching a movie we have to constantly remember previous scenes in order to make connections. Maybe that's how he managed to sit through an entire movie and understand it. (I could be extremely wrong though)

Not sure but while watching a movie we have to constantly remember previous scenes in order to make connections. Maybe that's how he managed to sit through an entire movie and understand it. (I could be extremely wrong though)

+Tayloraurrekoetxea I have a friend who has severe trouble moving memories from short term to long term memory. A film is easy - as long as it holds your attention you can work with it all in your short term memory. For my friend, however, if he has to stop the movie to run an errand, he'll really need to restart it when he gets back home.

+ady gombos You forgot you posted it the first time? ;)

Yep. It's just transferring your short-term memory of the thing you're studying into long-term memory.

You almost certainly did, you just forgot! lol

april487 lol

some of us we are learning about him in psychology

ARE U A PSYCHOO LOGIST?

It is covered in memory topic in psychology 101 and the role of hippocampus is a common exam question. Severe chronic stress also affects this crucial area and thus has an impact on long term memory.

Was he ?

Really? No wonder

the patient had an epilepsy due to an accident which caused damage to the hippocampus. It's called "temporal lope epilepsy". He had to remove the hippocampus in order to " heal" the epilepsy. X Greetings from Germany

that's why it's there

Exactly, my girlfriend had both the left and right hippocampus removed and she has no memory loss. well at least no more than normal.

lol nah boi

+Michael You don't lose memories you already have by removing/destroying the Hippocampus. It's the formation of new memories that gets impaired.

May the Science be with You but Henry has retrograde as well as anterograde amnesia and his hippocampus was removed.

You are thinking about phineas gage the rail worker. Also it wasn't his hippocampus that was damaged it was his frontal lobe and it caused personality changes not memory issues.

@@TheKempdog This is almost ironic. I don't remember HM at all. I remember Phineas Gage though. And, you're right! That was definitely Phineas Gage. I think I over-studied and wanted to regurgitate some information at a forum. My mistake! I'm going to edit that post. Whoops!

TriiiKill probably not, since seizures cause memory problems anyway.

@@adeline4610 depends of seizures. I live a normal life with epilepsy , a disease known for many seizures in a life time ( Lucky me , Since 14 to 20 years I had only 4 seizures ).A seizure can cause memory problems only if the seizure is linked with high fever or from head injury during the seizure. In rare cases you will met a person with memory problem happened from his seizure.

I have had epilepsy for 40 years and have struggled with a bad memory for much of my life. I had surgery a few years ago and have been seizure free since then but my short term memory is considerably worse since then. I would still say that the surgery is worthwhile as there are other risks to your health with uncontrolled seizures.

Yea, remember Tom?

No, his RAM worked fine. His HDD/SSD died.

No, both his HDD/SSD and RAM worked fine. His cable(connection) between RAM and HDD/SSD died.

His HDD has bad sectors

"Sammy had no drive, no reason to make it work."

I didn't realise this was an actual thing...

Interesting thought you have there buddy

I have consumed a lot of psychedelics and now I know at the age of 65 that my hippocampus was damaged prior to the consumption of the psychedelic compounds. This is just what I have surmised in retrospect as my memory continues to image prior events.