Brenda Milner
(1918-)
Brenda Milner studied for her Ph.D. at the University of Montreal under
Donald Hebb. Hebb arranged a research position with
Wilder Penfield, where she studied loss of memory function in Penfield's epileptic patients when lesions and surgery damaged the temporal lobes and underlying basal ganglia.
Milner's expertise led to an invitation to study Henry Molaison (her famous patient known only as H.M.), who lost the ability to form new memories after removal of his hippocampi and several nearby brain regions.
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