Tag: amnesia

For eight years, a man with amnesia lived at a hospital in Mississippi. Who was he — and why had no one come looking for him?

A new study shows that knowledge about the Holocaust is dangerously at an all-time low.

Lonni Sue Johnson was a successful illustrator, when the herpes simplex virus attacked her brain; she lost almost her entire lifetime of knowledge, along with the ability to form new memories. Michael Lemonick describes how she’s invaluable to neuroscientists working to understand how we make and store memories.

Sam Kean | The Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons | 2014 | 12 minutes (3,008 words)   For our latest Longreads Member Pick, we’re excited to share a story from The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, a new book from science reporter Sam Kean looking at stories about the brain and the history of neuroscience. Here’s Kean: […]