BrainBlog

Enjoy a brainy evening tonight on BBC4! Broken Brains

A website from UCSD Brain Observatory: Deconstructing Henry

A fine little piece in the New York Times about Patient H.M. and his performance on crossword puzzles. No Memory, but He Filled In the Blanks By BENEDICT CAREY Published: December 6, 2010 "A man who had brain tissue removed in 1953 stunned researchers over the years by learning some new facts and maintaining his addiction to crossword puzzles." Read the article

From the BBC Radio 4 show, "Case Study": HM - The Man Who Couldn't Remember Broadcast on 11 August 2010. Listen to the programme

Building a Search Engine of the Brain, Slice by Slice By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: December 22, 2009 "The dissection of the brain of H. M., an amnesiac, has opened the door to a much more ambitious project." Read the full article

The Man Who Couldn't Remember PBS NOVA February 2009 transcript

The web feed for the continued brain slicing of Patient H.M. suggests that, to the music of Stan Getz, "Primary visual cortex has surfaced. The end is in sight!" :-) If you have not yet watched some of the web stream, give it a look at this time! http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php Thank you Brain Observatory for providing this live feed of an historic couple of days in neuroscience and neuropsychology! Here is the transcript of an interview that NPR completed with the director of The Brain Observatory at this time last year, December 2008: transcript

The Twitter tag for the Patient H.M. brain slicing has sprouted up as #HM . Join the tweets and discuss!

From the Brain Observatory website at the end of last night's work: "We have reached the corpus callosum. The team is resting for the night. The brain will be safe surrounded by our chillers until tomorrow morning. The cutting will resume again at 8AM PST. "Tomorrow will be a big day - We will try to cover the medial temporal lobes and the area surrounding the hippocampus." The Brain Observatory Today at 0800 PST, 1100 EST, 1600 GMT. === Today's New York Times article by Benedict Carey about the brain sectioning: Dissection Begins on Famous Brain Read here

The sectioning of Patent H.M.'s brain begins today and will be streamed online live at the following location: http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php === H.M. recollected Famous amnesic launches a bold, new brain project at UCSD BY SCOTT LAFEE, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009 AT 12:04 A.M. Read the article

From the CBC : McGill neuroscientist wins $1M research prize Last Updated: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 | 5:26 PM ET [snip] McGill University Prof. Brenda Milner has won the International Balzan Prize for 2009 . The prize is one million Swiss francs, or about $1 million Cdn, for her groundbreaking research into cognitive neuroscience and how we remember. [snip] Read the full article Dr. Milner was interviewed on the 9th of September on As It Happens . You can download the podcast at this link (tune in to the last 10 minutes). She speaks about several aspects of her work, including Patient H.M., and the Balzan Prize.