CHAPTER ONE

six feet tall Lisa Stefanacci et al., “Profound Amnesia After Damage
to the Medial Temporal Lobe: A Neuroanatomical and
Neuropsychological Profile of Patient E.P.,” Journal of Neuroscience
20, no. 18 (2000): 7024–36.

“Who’s Michael?” I am indebted to the Pauly and Rayes families, as

well as the Squire laboratory and coverage such as Joshua Foer,
“Remember This,” National Geographic, November 2007, 32–57;
“Don’t Forget,” Scientific American Frontiers, television program,
produced by Chedd-Angier Production Company, PBS, episode first
aired May 11, 2004, hosted by Alan Alda; “Solved: Two Controversial
Brain Teasers,” Bioworld Today, August 1999; David E. Graham,
“UCSD Scientist Unlocks Working of Human Memory,” The San Diego
Union-Tribune, August 12, 1999.

The sample from Eugene’s spine Richard J. Whitley and David

W. Kimberlan, “Viral Encephalitis,” Pediatrics in Review 20, no. 6
(1999): 192–98.

was seven years old Some published papers say that H.M. was
injured at age nine; others say seven.

he was hit by a bicycle Previous research indicates that H.M. was

hit by a bicycle. New documents, as yet unpublished, indicate he may
have fallen off a bike.

landed hard on his head Luke Dittrich, “The Brain That Changed
Everything,” Esquire, October 2010.

He was smart Eric Hargreaves, “H.M.,” Page O’Neuroplasticity,

http://homepages.nyu.edu/.