Fascinating New York Times Magazine article: “The untold story of the fight over the legacy of ‘H.M.’—the patient who revolutionized the science of memory.”
The story of the war over Henry’s brain didn’t begin in a fancy conference room on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, but that’s where one of its climactic battles would take place. It was March 2013, and there were more than a dozen participants, an impressive roster of scientists and administrators affiliated with four major institutions — M.I.T.; Mass General; the University of California, Davis; and the University of California, San Diego — as well as two major grant-giving organizations, the Dana Foundation and the Simons Foundation. But the essential participants, the chief antagonists, were Suzanne Corkin and a man named Jacopo Annese.
Meanwhile, more than 200 members of the “international scientific community,” including faculty at MIT, have responded to the article.
