· Former graduate of Brenda Miners at McGill who runs the behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT
· Took over as lead investigator on all things Henry related in the 1970’s
· She is known to be fiercely protective of her prized test subject vetting researchers exhaustively demanding the signing of non-disclosure contracts
· Disallowed tape recorders etc
· She built a good portion of her career on her special access to Henry, she won’t just let anybody in
· She discovered that Henry is able to recognize the intensity of smells, but not their provenance unable to discriminate the fragrance of rose from the smell of dog poo.
· She gave H.M a list of names, all beginning with C and he could pick out Corkin.
· When she got the call about H.M dying she said… “I was very sad at the time, but I also knew there was important work to be done. H.M and his conservator signed a Brain donation form. After he died, we brought him up to MGH and we scanned his brain for nine hours. In the middle of that night, I wrote his obituary. That was the first time I had the opportunity to confront my emotions about his death. And I was very sad because I realised that I had lost my friend of many years, it was hard.
· She was fiercely protective over her prized subject.
· She first met henry at Brenda Mills lab in 1962
This is a radio interview... Speaking to Suzanne Corkin and Jaccopo!
Ria! :)
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