^Benedict Carey. H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82. New York Times. December 4, 2008 [2008-12-05]. （原始内容存档于2018-06-13）. Eighteen years after that bicycle accident,Mr. Molaison arrived at the office of Dr. William Beecher Scoville, a neurosurgeon at Hartford Hospital. Mr. Molaison was blacking out frequently, had devastating convulsions and could no longer repair motors to earn a living. After exhausting other treatments, Dr. Scoville decided to surgically remove two finger-shaped slivers of tissue from Mr. Molaison’s brain. The seizures abated, but the procedure – especially cutting into the hippocampus, an area deep in the brain, about level with the ears – left the patient radically changed.
