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Is Your Hippocampal Functioning Properly?

Henny mollison was one of the more famous patients as far as memory studies go. His name wasn't published util after he died, but he yielded a lot of information about how memories arefor thanks to the hippocampus. He could remember everything up to that point under the surgery, then after that, it was almost like his brain refreshed every i think, something like 30 seconds while and he was just lived in an institution. When you're drinking, am your hippocampel functions is messed with you. You are not forming new memory. And you require thet hippocampus to do this.

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