Milner And Corkin: A Case Study
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Case studies are in depth description of one person’s behaviors and actions that make them different from the rest of society in that period of time. There is one case study that was created to relive a twenty seven year old man's childhood from one incident. The incident showed evidence of different memory systems in the brain.
H.M. fell off his bike around age seven and at ten,epileptic seizures began to occur to the young child. The incident did not seem severe to any doctors until his adulthood. H.M. started to get such bad epileptic seizures it messed with his memory. He could not remember a memory that just happened. This had affected his short term memory.
There were two specialist in this case study, Milner and Corkin. Milner was