Brenda Milner

Brenda Milner, CC, GOQ, FRS ( born July 15, 1918 in Manchester ) is a psychologist.

In 1952 she received her doctorate in Donald Hebb at McGill University. Since 1950, she worked with Wilder Penfield.

In 1957/58, she published groundbreaking work on patients after epilepsy surgery. Her most famous patient HM. This 1953, the medial portions of both temporal lobes ( temporal lobe ) of the brain had been removed by William Scoville. Milner's work was of great importance for memory research.

Awards (selection)

Publications

  • Milner, B.: Psychological defects produced by temporal lobe excision. Proceedings of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, 1958, 36, 244-257.
  • Milner B. ( 1972): Disorders of learning and memory after temporal lobe lesions in man. Clin. Neurosurg. 19:421-66
  • Milner B, Squire LR, Kandel ER ( 1998) Cognitive neuroscience and the study of memory. neuron 20:445-68

Recent publications about the patient HM by other authors

  • Suzanne Corkin et al.: HM 's Medial Temporal Lobe Lesion: Findings from Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The Journal of Neuroscience, May 15, 1997, 17 (10 ) :3964 - 3979
  • G. O'Kane, Kensinger, EA & Corkin, S. ( 2004): Evidence for semantic learning in profound amnesia: An investigation with the patient HM Hippocampus, 14: . 417-425.
  • S. Corkin (2002 ): What 's new with the amnesic patient HM? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3: 153-160
  • D. H. salad et al. (2006): Neuroimaging HM: A 10 - Year Follow -up Examination. Hippocampus 16:936-945.
  • Bohbot, VD, Corkin, S. ( 2007): Posterior parahippocampal place learning in HM Hippocampus, 17, 863-872.
  • B. Preilowski (2009): Remembering a Amnestiker ( and a half-century memory research ). In: Advances in neurology - Psychiatry, 77 (10 ), 568-576.
Donald O. Hebb NAS Award in the Neurosciences Balzan Prize Dan David Prize
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