UC San Diego scientists recall EP, perhaps the world’s
second-most famous amnesiac
An international team of neuroscientists has described for
the first time in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac
who suffered from profound memory loss after damage to key portions of his
brain.
Writing in this week’s Online Early Edition of PNAS,
principal investigator Larry R. Squire, PhD, professor in the departments of
Neurosciences, Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of California, San
Diego School of Medicine and Veteran Affairs San Diego Healthcare System
(VASDHS) – with colleagues at UC Davis and the University of Castilla-La Mancha
in Spain – recount the case of EP, a man who suffered radical memory loss and
dysfunction following a bout of viral encephalitis.