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I'm sure he was peaceful when he passed away, but that doesn't deny the fact that his life was cut short. From his perspective he was forever a young man with a future ahead of him, even if he couldn't see what that future was. Rest in Peace.
More like Disconnecticut sorry I've always wanted say that but have never had the opportunity. It doesn't even make sense in this context but I wanted to say it anyway, I can live on now.
To me, that guys life is like the ultimate existential horror. He seems aware that he is unaware, then he forgets even that. His existence can no longer add up to anything, he can't do anything, he can't learn any skills. It seems a normal life because the problem is not literally visible immediately.
This whole channel gives me the vibe of a late night Discovery show that you're not allowed to watch as a kid and you don't understand what's going on but you're to damn curious to watch it
@@ellior72315 just so you know, random internet person, I do not know what you look like, if you are male or female, your political views, but I hate you From new Hampshire
he cant say it because he cant remember living with a memory, because he has no memory , so he cant make the deference between 'living the moment and living a normal life'
it’s so unnecessarily cruel for that guy to not let Henry walk across the stage because god forbid he has an uncontrollable seizure and “embarrasses the school.” it’s awful that people think about these kinds of disorders as embarrassing to THEM instead of having compassion for the person who has to live with it every single day.
No, its just not fun for kids to watch a man violently convulse on stage. If you like seeing it, you do you, but I wouldn't want to see or be seen having a seizure in front of kids who could be scarred for life because they almost saw a man die
@@snailsaredumb9412 it's not about people "liking" seeing it. of course we wouldn't want to see a fellow human suffer that. we would rather he didn't experience that and live fully. however, people would still want henry to walk because it would allow him to feel proud about his work and have agency in a life predicated by his illness.
@@TR-qf2gt This scenario would be similar to the two options where you would only do it for the sake of an individual or do it for the sake of everyone. So I guess people would have a different answer with this which would probably because they were only focusing on a certain reason or they are looking at the scenario from a different perspective.
@@tedchirvasiu it's different, there are much more evidence backing up the modern medicines, there are more research also. those concerns are undestandable but making that anachronistic comparision doesn't help at all
@@LucyFierce Not really lots of modern meds are shit and as above said its a guessing game to find the right one that will work with the minimum amount of side effects. just look at cancer med were many people were treated with the wrong medication because they didn't know better.
So the scope of this story could do with a little bit of historical context: Back before the 1970's, we used to think of the brain as "ineloquent"; that is, that basically if something was wrong we could remove a part of it (like removing worn out parts of an engine). After this, we've learned that the brain is "eloquent", which gave rise to minimally invasive surgery. Quite a bit has changed with this discovery.
what happened to henry is SO sad and awful but, without him, we wouldn’t know what we know about memory, certain brain structures, temporal lobe resection for epilepsy, etc. he didn’t suffer or die in vain
Although there's truth to that, I can't help but question if that really helps to justify it in any way, I'd say no but I guess it's better to be optimistic about things. I do find it odd for someone to say "yeah all this bad stuff happened to a man but...." No disrespect I just can't fathom how such a thing could be seen in a good way even if we learnt something in the end.
@Bond Amf I am very aware and it seems you may have misunderstood me as I was just referring to the type of comment that it was, nothing more nothing less. We learn things from tragedies, but does that mean we should try to justify the tragedy? No, we take what we learn and treat it as it is, an abomination.
*_Well, just another harmonical case of:_* Doctor: "The test results told us, that the issue for your current slight pain is just a slightly acidic liver. Nevertheless, we also discovered early on that your appendix might be slightly inflamed. Like it's the case for so many other people, too, It is probably best if we remove that tiny thing sometime in the near future to prevent you from suffering anything worse. But, all in all, you got nothing to worry. :)" Patient: "Oh man... but, okay. Kinda glad, cause I was already afraid of the worst." And then during the operation: *I.)* Mixed up patient files. *II.)* Surgeon unknown in the clini. Has been recently hired because of shortage of staff at the moment. *III.)* Some lil' moment of revelation when right THAT surgeon realized afterwards, that the hard shell they had to saw open, apparently really was the top of the skull --- not just the abdominal wall. Following from this: Having operated on the brain instead of the intestines. Of course, this incident deserves some extraordinary words of apology from the surgeon --- insightful and considerate: *_"HEY... YOU REALLY GOTTA BE LENIENT ON ME ABOUT THAT, CAUSE THAT SOFT MASS IN THERE... REALLY... WAS LOOKING SO DAMN SIMILAR !!_** :/* _*REAAAALLY..._ _WASN'T ON PURPOSE !! :/* _Okay?_ ^-^ [...] _Well, whatever you tried to answer on me..._ Atleast, just wanna tell you this: _As far from my side,..._ *IT IS OKAY !!* c: " :D *~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~* TL;DR: *Actually, just another* _clinically_ *usual working day at the hospital.* {gasp} :>
@@Bififress0r what do you mean? They fixed the epilepsy that they had gone in to fix. Resectioning of parts of the temporal lobe is still used today as a past resort treatment for severe epilepsy. They had no way for knowing that bilateral temporal lobe ablation would result in total loss of short term memory. I think what happened to HM lead to the entire field of hippocampus research.
It would be great actually. The reason we have stress and anxiety is because we can't live in the moment and we dwell on the past and worry about the future. We can't have the contentment that comes with being able to live in the moment we're in, as animals do and that's a shame.
that mustache just really is doing him NO favors. its hard to tell how old he is, which is probably why he keeps it, to make him look more like an "adult" be it that he's either a young man wanting to be taken seriously, or a 20 something who doesnt wanna appear baby faced.
It's like when your car throws a fault code on the Diesel Particulate Filter being full, and instead of fixing it, you rip the thing out from the car and reprogram the engine control unit to believe there is no Diesel Particulate Filter.
@Ritter_cracker When our cars alternator was shitting the bed the car computer would auto shut down the car and my dad deadass convinced the car the broken as fuck alternator was fine. Fuckin hate car computers
As someone with pretty much the same condition, this is fucking horrific to me. I have issues with my frontal lobe due to seizures daily, my trigger for my seizures is audio, so yknow, cant really just cut that outta my brain. I have severe memory issues, and at 15... i had my first grand mal seizure. I see myself as him and im horrified of my future. Ill probably forget i wrote this. I'm sometimes asked how i remember stuff, i dont, it just happens. I cannot remember 4 years of my life, fully. But i have bits pop up sometimes. Psychologist said im continually suffering retrograde amnesia and anterograde. Yaaay
Do what you can with the knowledge you have to have as many fulfilling occasions as possible. Memory or no memory, you can still chase your dreams. You are of a different time than Henry, so your fate will be different in some way. Glad you found this video. Good luck, good luck. :)
@Kazumaf Nah ,jojo is the worst anime ever made in all of existence shortly after clannad. Smh. Ffs its sad how many of you there are. Proof that average is really far below lmfao
I can't even begin to fathom what it must have been like for him to sit back and have a part of his brain drilled out while he was awake. Absolutely terrifying.
Funnily enough, because the brain tissue doesn't have any nociceptors, once you get past the scalp he really wouldn't have felt anything (assuming the scalp was numbed properly). It probably would have sounded really weird though, like, maybe some squishy noises coming from INSIDE your own head.
The limbic system is in the middle of your brain and this area was not drilled. A portion of this system was removed. There would be no physical way to drill out an MTL without damaging a LOT of brain tissue on the way in. This video gets a LOT wrong about a case study that is really easy to look up and that there are literally dozens of books on.
im a psych major, so ive already studied a lot about HM, including the amazing advancements his unfortunate situation has lead to. however, ive never seen anyone humanize him in such an empathetic way. its easy to forget that Henry was a real person with real feelings and experienced something that no one else has, especially with how most all psychologists still just refer to him as HM instead of his name even though his identity was revealed years ago. its a problem that plagues the psychological community, so thank you for bring humanity to this case study
I first heard about this guy in a 'Dark Matters' episode on the Science Channel, the series of course talks about the darkest parts of the scientific studies.
@@sabaaras I understand and agree with your point about the way in which psych students are likely to fort encounter Henry's story, and how that is likely to shape the way that they relate to him (or don't). But I found the first sentences of your comment rather curious. If a lack of empathy doesn't make someone "a bad person", then what does? Isn't this how we define "evil"? Personally, I don't believe in punishing people who lack empathy or have little to no moral compass. I think our only concern as a society should be preventing such people from hurting those around them. But I do think such people are "evil". That is just the definition of the word. If we don't define evil as the capacity to commit acts of cruelty, then how do we define it?
@@ahobimo732 i agree with what youre saying. just because someone is evil by *definition,* doesnt mean they deserve to be punished or treated worse. i personally lack empathy, and any time its brought up everyone looks at me with a disgusted look. i dont think i, or anyone like me, is a *bad person.* we just feel and think differently than the "average" person
I am just wondering about his emotional state. Was he always confused and distressed/sad about his lack of memory? Or was he in a state of blissful ignorance, enjoying every moment for the first time?
he has no idea how long he has lived, or how long he might live. he simply exists in the moment. i don't think that level of awareness would be enough to have him realize the tragedy (or blissfulness) of the situation at all
You ever just go into a state of nothing thinking? That's what I can imagine he went through. No major thought into the future or past, not even any thought for the present. Just nothing
Memory is an amazing thing. I took acid when I was about 25 and during the trip I went back into my 1 year old self when I was learning to talk and how pronounced words and toys I played with. It was amazing and truly shows how incredible the brain is.
@@hey639 weed is addictive, food is addictive, sex is addictive.. If you develop a love for something and dont moderate it in a healthy manner then it becomes an addiction.. How do I know? My brother used my card and spent $500 bucks on weed and shrooms.
My grandpa is currently suffering this now and it's very clear that it causes him distress. You can tell he's frustrated by his inability to remember. It's very sad. 😭
@@Psythik does she tell you all the time that you and her talked about it but for some reason you don't remember that conversation at all? It's not you... Trust me. 😂
It seems like a reference to the intro from the 'How Many Holes Does A Human Have?' video. Also, Alsina (the "Vsauce font") was used at the beginning of this video.
This is a subject that both fascinates and terrifies me. Oblivion is perhaps the cruellest fate, because you wouldn't be able to remember it was happening to you, or that you once felt differently about things and that your life used to be completely different. Memory is what drives us and inspires us.
@@WhatTheHell919 you sure literally *everybody* who clicked this video knows anything about neuroscience? It might surprise you, but there are a lot of people who never looked up anything related to neuro science (including brain surgery) ever. So no, not everyone knows that.
@@WhatTheHell919 not everybody knows that, actually. look up "xkcd ten thousand". maybe that can help you to stop being rude and making absurd assumptions that something is known by everyone.
Look at you man! The channel is getting very high end now, lookin' great. I actually have damages to my brain that make it very difficult to make memories long term. I have, fortunately, trained myself to do this manually with things I feel are of greatest import, and some of your early videos are amongst those "forged" recollections. Muscle memory is the trick. Associating memories to sensory perceptions. This is where a lot of our channel's premise comes from. My apologies if I have already told you this before.
I used to get a lot of noise at work because each day was like my first, but I have begun to master my tasks now and things are about to change. Wish me skill.
He sounded nice and polite, he most likely didn’t remember hate or any problems but also the flip side he remembered very little good so he most likely treated anyone how they treated him
Molaison was very much prone to bursts of angry confusion. Emotions can be associated with memory, but are not reliant on systems of encoding/memory. He also remembered decades of his life preceding his operation. He seemed to treat everyone with the same politeness one would a stranger, because as far as he knew, everyone he met following his procedure was a stranger to him, even those he saw daily for years.
When I look at his face he looks in his early 20s, but when the moustache comes into context he looks in his 30s; my brain is confused and can't choose between the two
looks worse than a perve stache on a 12 year old. honestly dude should shave it off. the looks not working on him. in 15 years or so he might grow into it.. might.. 🤷♂️ I think hes trying to look like that other young youtube guy who grew out the moustache and rocks suspenders.. honestly looks not believable with that guy either.. but eh we were all young once.. did a great job on the vid otherwise 👍
I don't think it's that great to not remember. Your memories determine the actions and decisions that you make, and your actions define the person you are. Your memories are the backbone of your being
I feel I should mention how absolutely stunning the editing and special effects in this video. The production quality is breathtaking, I've seen big budget movies that pale in comparison to this.
8:20 Did he say "I'm back?". That's scary if so, he doesn't know that he had a seizure but he felt like he left or went somewhere else, but then the absence itself he can't recall. I can't imagine how painful this was for the people around him to see this happen real time.
@@Mikey-jv5fv Yea, I've had partial focal seizures my whole life iirc (medicated now, thankfuly). I thought they were just normal when I was a kid but it's very obvious when it happens.
@@chonkydog6262 if ram doesn’t go away when you turn off your pc that’s probably because some pc’s have settings where they are allowed to load off the ram onto the hard drive until it’s turned back on again
Is that so bad for him tho? Think of this exact day 10 years ago. Are you sad because you can't remember it? Everything was like that to him. I still wish he could have lived a normal life though.
I remember seeing the bbc documentary about the british musician that lost part off his brain due to a virus, and after that he completely lost his long term memory, but he could remember, some really small details like plate numbers. At the end I came to my own conclusion that he basically lost his consciousness. He would constantly wake up to the present moment and be like "oh, that's me, I don't know me, but I'm here now even not knowing what here actually means".
You can in some severe cases. You don’t forget, but your brain regresses to not knowing how If that makes sense. Happens with brain tumors sometimes, or dementia.
That's what often happens when you take opioids, you forget to breathe for a while. usually you remember to, but in a warm bath for example.. lots of people died this way, and not from overdose
@@u1337ochka apparently u dont even need drugs, i talked to a paramedic and they say they get calls all the time from peoples muscles seizing up from lack of oxygen because they the think they having a stroke or seizure, but in reality people just don't know how to breathe properly...:/
In some cases of dementia, the patient dies of starvation They forget how to eat and drink, so they die If I live long enough to have dementia, I'm going to kill myself the pain isn't worth it
I forgot how to yawn for a few weeks and it was miserable. Like a yawn would start and id get to the point where my mouth was wide and i was breathing out but then i didnt know how to finish it so i would awkwardly stop and just closed my mouth. It was way more miserable than you would think.
i went for a nap one day and woke up unable to read or write or understand english. i would type something on my keyboard but it didn't make any sense and i couldn't tell if i was typing real words or not. i tried using the alphabet letters on our fridge to no avail. i was a kid when this happened and my dad wasn't home so despite being very distressed i just went back to bed, and when i woke up i was able to understand english again. brains and memory is weird as fuck.
Just forget about it jk but just don't worry about the chance of this happening is so low especially now in days with better tools and things that are just overall better so the chance of this happening to you is under 0.1%
I think I remember learning about this in psychology. My profs referred to what Henry had as "anterograde amnesia" - being able to remember your past, but being unable to create new memories (as opposed to retrograde amnesia, where you forget your past but are able to create new memories). While it was assumed for a long time that Henry wasn't capable of remembering who he was, he was actually able to learn new things - like floor plans, recognizing and being comfortable around people he had met, and more. I really love how to presented everything in this video - it's easy to understand and gives more perspective on the case!
I had to research lobotomies as an assignment in elementary school. I hated it. I was only in 4-5 grade. I still can't believe it was a legitament assignment.
Me being 18 barely was able to watch real videos before and after or even interviews about the subject, I’d be fucked up if I knew about it younger tbh
I laughed out loud when, after the intro with the narrator saying, "It had been 40 years since Henry had lost his memory," then the commercial began with an announcer saying. "This is a real B&H customer story."
It's also super wrong! 🌈 I'm a PhD psych student not specializing in memory, but having worked in a prominent memory lab in my undergrad and taken numerous specialty courses on it. I'd highly encourage searching Henry Molaison and referring to literally any of the first 20 results which accurately cover memory systems, how HM contributed to our understanding of them, and more about his life, but without the errors and misrepresentations here.
My dad lost a lot of his brain to cancer and had a stroke sometimes hell repeat stuff to me like right after he said it its hard :/ its amazing that the brain can still work and the body can survive like that anyway
does anybody know the specific song used at 3:15? i thought it was some boards of canada track since it has the same type of soft sounding synth chords but especially since a few boc songs were used as adult swim bumpers. skimmed through a few boc and aphex twin albums and couldnt find the song
i remember as a kid asking my parents, if Gilderoy Lockhart zapped away his memory why didn't he forget to speak? now it makes a mid more sense that talking is more of a muscle memory than an actual memory
That's why no one can truly know you or what you truly want but you only. He appeared "well", but that was the whole problem from the beginning, trying to make him look "well"
"I see you have trouble remembering things." "HoW lOnG hAvE yoU HaD tRoUble ReMeMberiNG tHiNgs?" This is equivalent to asking someone with Alzheimers where they were on a specific date
it's not an stupid question when you are trying to understand and figure it out his own perception of time/memory not just the perception of everyone else which is clearly an obvious perception, that's why it's an interview. She is not asking what is 2+2 to a perfectly "normal" person.
So if he answered with exactly how long he's had trouble remembering things, that changes all of their research. They need to get as much information as they can, even if the answer seems obvious
This guy’s videos are absolutely phenomenal. I do not understand how videos of such high quality are being made without this guy even having 1 million subs. Keep it up
This episode hit me hard. I have these seizures. Started with the absence seizures had them since 5 or 6 on the daily...had my first gran mal seizure at 21. Since then, I've had three or four of those larger seizures. For me, the absence seizures can easily gateway into the larger seizures if you have enough of them in a short period of time. Usually triggered by stress, brain activity (overthinking) and lack of sleep...but what's troublesome is that I used to pride myself on remembering things in vivid detail from a young age. Lately, I find myself forgetting how old I am. What I've done this morning, or yesterday...could be age. But is scares me none the less.
Damn. I hope your doing okay right now, and that you can get something to help stop your seizures from happening so frequently. You can talk to me any time on discord or snapchat if you'd like to speak more or anything! Just ask me!
I have the same kind of problems!! But no doctor will investigate. I did have something where finally my vision went away completely over like 5 seconds and i had to lay down to stop myself from passing out and falling down stairs. But i cant remember my age a lot of the time too and things like what day it is. What did you do to get it investigated?
Please please talk to your doctor (I am one myself) any change that is troubling or effecting your quality of life is a big concern that needs to be addressed. Your neurologist may want to run some tests and perhaps move you to a different medication. I can’t legally give you medical advice without you being my patient, however, I strongly suggest you to communicate your concerns to your health care team. I wish you the best
@@faithdoerner9262 please don’t give up. Try to see if you can speak to a neurologist. That’s very upsetting to me that you weren’t taken seriously. I’m truly sorry. I hope you get your health journey started soon
that must be so weird to feel your memories be literally sucked out of you, just "my mom" then suddenly "whos mom" then just, no memories other then nothing
For my fifth birthday, my neighbour gifted me a book on neuroscience. (Yes, I know that's a strange gift for a five-year-old.) I used to read it all the time, but especially the section on memory. I was always so interested in it. I wanted to be a neuroscientist and find a cure for Alzheimer's. In particular, there was this one section I read _so much_ that the book automatically opens to that page if you just pull the covers apart. I still have that book, and when you said he was referred to as "Patient H.M." I grabbed it, and opened it to that page, and right there, the second sentence: "In 1953, a young man called H.M. underwent an operation for epilepsy." I am not a neuroscientist. I developed schizophrenia in middle school and started drinking heavily to cope. Now I have absence seizures, as well as alcohol-related memory deficiencies that make forming new long-term memories extremely difficult. The irony isn't lost on me.
I like that during the memory sections you play the Disco Elysium soundtrack, a game about a messed up detective who's lost all memory of his past. Well played
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Love your channel man
You actually make so much cool stuff, thanks for posting!
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"I think about 1 year or more. It has been forty years since Henry has lost his memory." Shit went from 0 to 100 really quick.
I mean, he wasn't wrong tho
Actually from >1 to 40 but ok
had*
*1 to 40
@@ihatemaxx grammar nazi
I'm sure he was peaceful when he passed away, but that doesn't deny the fact that his life was cut short. From his perspective he was forever a young man with a future ahead of him, even if he couldn't see what that future was. Rest in Peace.
Sometimes it’s better to cut your life short peacefully then live it out to get a possibly terrible death
@@Leed9 yea I feel as if I would want a short but peaceful life instead of living a long time in living hell
These stories aren’t real
@@SuperThischannel ??
@SuperThischannel actually many of the stories on the disrupt channel are real
as a resident of connecticut, the jump from "somewhere scary" to "CONNECTICUT" was absolutely hilarious, nice one
@Scoralin he’s scared of hartford 😭😭
connecticut squad!
@@bachkawrd Yeaa
More like Disconnecticut
sorry I've always wanted say that but have never had the opportunity. It doesn't even make sense in this context but I wanted to say it anyway, I can live on now.
Connecticutians unite!
To me, that guys life is like the ultimate existential horror. He seems aware that he is unaware, then he forgets even that. His existence can no longer add up to anything, he can't do anything, he can't learn any skills. It seems a normal life because the problem is not literally visible immediately.
It's like a weird form of dementia, except instead of being slow and gradual it just hits you immendiately
Out of topic but seeing you say that with the coc pfp is deadass funny
@@hiddenhope1771 I've had this acc since I was in school in like 4th grade😂
@@coltonthejames2921 lmao 🤣
did you watch the video? the only thing he could remember was skills and things that he 'does'
"How long have you had trouble remembering things?" "For as long as I can remember"
Daaaaaaaaaaaaang I really shouldn't laugh but...
So basically that means he doesn't know how long he has had trouble remembering things.
I feel bad for laughing at that
Well, hes not wrong,,,
Honestly, mood
This whole channel gives me the vibe of a late night Discovery show that you're not allowed to watch as a kid and you don't understand what's going on but you're to damn curious to watch it
100% agree
It reminded me of Brain Games lol
accurate
*too
This Disturbed me
Ah, yes, the coldest, darkest, scariest place on Earth: *Connecticut.*
YOUR, WRONG THATS MASSACHUSETTS
You're all wrong! It's Detroit.
@@Big_Pound atleast Detroit is like a private anarchy sever, mass people spread there terrible driving and bitching about the cold, *everywhere*
As a someone from Massachusetts, I can confirmed
@@ellior72315 just so you know, random internet person, I do not know what you look like, if you are male or female, your political views, but I hate you
From new Hampshire
This dude could genuinely say "I'm the type of guy that just lives in the moment"
Pretty much yeah
@Sarim Khan “I’m the type of guy that just lives in the moment.......... I’m the type of guy that just lives in the moment”
@Sarim Khan He doesn't have to remember to say it he could just say it. However he would not remember having said it.
wait explain it
he cant say it because he cant remember living with a memory, because he has no memory , so he cant make the deference between 'living the moment and living a normal life'
it’s so unnecessarily cruel for that guy to not let Henry walk across the stage because god forbid he has an uncontrollable seizure and “embarrasses the school.” it’s awful that people think about these kinds of disorders as embarrassing to THEM instead of having compassion for the person who has to live with it every single day.
No, its just not fun for kids to watch a man violently convulse on stage. If you like seeing it, you do you, but I wouldn't want to see or be seen having a seizure in front of kids who could be scarred for life because they almost saw a man die
@@snailsaredumb9412 again, you're only thinking about yourself and not the human being who's on the receiving end of it.
@@mazovist I have a seizure disorder, so I'm very well aware of what I'm talking about
@@snailsaredumb9412 it's not about people "liking" seeing it. of course we wouldn't want to see a fellow human suffer that. we would rather he didn't experience that and live fully. however, people would still want henry to walk because it would allow him to feel proud about his work and have agency in a life predicated by his illness.
@@TR-qf2gt This scenario would be similar to the two options where you would only do it for the sake of an individual or do it for the sake of everyone. So I guess people would have a different answer with this which would probably because they were only focusing on a certain reason or they are looking at the scenario from a different perspective.
I feel like people ignore that his seizure medications before the surgery were neurodegenerative so thank you for mentioning it.
Eugh, way to go inventing good seizure meds. Although I guess you have to make shit meds to make good ones.
@@Wired_User i think it’s more so that you have to find drugs that work, not necessarily that the medicine was a bad medicine
@@misseselise3864 The scary thing is that people back then thought they were good meds just as we see the medicine produced nowadays as being good.
@@tedchirvasiu it's different, there are much more evidence backing up the modern medicines, there are more research also. those concerns are undestandable but making that anachronistic comparision doesn't help at all
@@LucyFierce Not really lots of modern meds are shit and as above said its a guessing game to find the right one that will work with the minimum amount of side effects. just look at cancer med were many people were treated with the wrong medication because they didn't know better.
So the scope of this story could do with a little bit of historical context:
Back before the 1970's, we used to think of the brain as "ineloquent"; that is, that basically if something was wrong we could remove a part of it (like removing worn out parts of an engine). After this, we've learned that the brain is "eloquent", which gave rise to minimally invasive surgery. Quite a bit has changed with this discovery.
“I wanna tell you a little more about this story but to do that we’re gonna have to go back to somewhere cold, dark, scary.”
𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐔𝐓
How tf you do that
@@biglad112 keyboard from connecticut
as a former ct resident i was fuckin rolling when that popped up
@@SlidewaysMotion As a current CT resident, I have to say things aren't that bad anymore
Though I can't say who paid me to say that
@@danagibbs3265 had to take a bribe to pay for the skyrocketed electricity delivery fees?
what happened to henry is SO sad and awful but, without him, we wouldn’t know what we know about memory, certain brain structures, temporal lobe resection for epilepsy, etc. he didn’t suffer or die in vain
Although there's truth to that, I can't help but question if that really helps to justify it in any way, I'd say no but I guess it's better to be optimistic about things.
I do find it odd for someone to say "yeah all this bad stuff happened to a man but...." No disrespect I just can't fathom how such a thing could be seen in a good way even if we learnt something in the end.
@Bond Amf this is so nicely put together
Everything is built upon sacrifice, be it your sweats and blood, your time, your lives or your suffering. It is in the law of equivalent exchange.
@@Faxy95 was it bad when Dr. Mengele used disadvantaged children to experiment on to further scientific research for the betterment of mankind?
@Bond Amf I am very aware and it seems you may have misunderstood me as I was just referring to the type of comment that it was, nothing more nothing less. We learn things from tragedies, but does that mean we should try to justify the tragedy? No, we take what we learn and treat it as it is, an abomination.
“Henry’s temporal lobe was drilled out, by a surgeon”
Surgeon looks like fuckin Mr.Bean
Mr. Bean mistakes an hospital for the hardware store
@@Quario That's so in character it hurts.
*_Well, just another harmonical case of:_*
Doctor: "The test results told us, that the issue for your current slight pain is just a slightly acidic liver. Nevertheless, we also discovered early on that your appendix might be slightly inflamed. Like it's the case for so many other people, too, It is probably best if we remove that tiny thing sometime in the near future to prevent you from suffering anything worse. But, all in all, you got nothing to worry. :)"
Patient: "Oh man... but, okay. Kinda glad, cause I was already afraid of the worst."
And then during the operation: *I.)* Mixed up patient files. *II.)* Surgeon unknown in the clini. Has been recently hired because of shortage of staff at the moment. *III.)* Some lil' moment of revelation when right THAT surgeon realized afterwards, that the hard shell they had to saw open, apparently really was the top of the skull --- not just the abdominal wall. Following from this: Having operated on the brain instead of the intestines.
Of course, this incident deserves some extraordinary words of apology from the surgeon --- insightful and considerate: *_"HEY... YOU REALLY GOTTA BE LENIENT ON ME ABOUT THAT, CAUSE THAT SOFT MASS IN THERE... REALLY... WAS LOOKING SO DAMN SIMILAR !!_** :/* _*REAAAALLY..._
_WASN'T ON PURPOSE !! :/* _Okay?_ ^-^ [...] _Well, whatever you tried to answer on me..._ Atleast, just wanna tell you this: _As far from my side,..._ *IT IS OKAY !!* c: "
:D
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TL;DR: *Actually, just another* _clinically_ *usual working day at the hospital.* {gasp} :>
@@Bififress0r what do you mean? They fixed the epilepsy that they had gone in to fix. Resectioning of parts of the temporal lobe is still used today as a past resort treatment for severe epilepsy. They had no way for knowing that bilateral temporal lobe ablation would result in total loss of short term memory. I think what happened to HM lead to the entire field of hippocampus research.
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT
“the mystery of a man with half a brain”
no way! Disrupt made a video about me!
Lmao
pffft. i have no brain...NO BRAIN MOVE!!!
me irl
lmaaoo
I have a full brain. Half of it just doesn’t work
He’s literally stuck in the present, no knowledge of the past or future. Kinda scary when you think about it
Yeah we saw the video dude
He won't remember that there is past, present and future.
@@catcrasher711 It's kinda scary, that's what he wanted to say and tw you are allowed to comment everything bro
It would be great actually. The reason we have stress and anxiety is because we can't live in the moment and we dwell on the past and worry about the future. We can't have the contentment that comes with being able to live in the moment we're in, as animals do and that's a shame.
@@dickJohnsonpeter It won't be, we can't advance
I dread to think how people discovered that the brain has no pain receptors
oh.
my.
god.
Probably an autopsy or study on an animal or smth
Doctor: *pimp slaps someone’s brain*
Patient: *doesnt react*
Doctor: WRITE THAT DOWN!! WRITE THAT DOWN!!
@@imjustapancake3188 Doctor: *shoots brain with a shotgun*
Brain: *doesn’t react*
Doctor: *furiously scribbles on notepad*
My guess is that emotional pain is just the absence of activated dopamine receptors? or has that more to do with dissatisfaction
I think that was the most surreal and entertaining Skill Share ad I’ve ever seen.
More so than surreal entertainment?
I was so invested i forgot to skip it.
@@poisoned_soju1216 yeah lol i thought it had something to do with the story
“Sit”
Yea it was funny
This dude (that made/narrarrates this)
looks like he’s 16 and 60 at the same time
He's like real life human version of Spongebob.
Is he the kid who sings oh baby baby hit me one more time by Brittany spears
I'll rephrase that for you: The creator of this interesting video has a unique style.
I respect that. And the video is awesome. Suscribed.
It’s because of the mustache
that mustache just really is doing him NO favors.
its hard to tell how old he is, which is probably why he keeps it, to make him look more like an "adult" be it that he's either a young man wanting to be taken seriously, or a 20 something who doesnt wanna appear baby faced.
The song at 15:57 is titled "Into the Unknown," which is extremely fitting. It's from the Subnautica soundtrack
I GOT SO EXCITED WHEN I HEARD IT MY BRAIN WENT SUBNAUTICAAAA
@@quacktus1454 same bro😂
Happy to see how many people recognized it. Means a lot of us have a good memory 😂
@@quacktus1454 I instantly recognized it
Greatest game of the decade? Subnautica rocks
“So Doc I have this weird pain in my knee...”
Pulls out skull drill* “I’ll see what I can do about that.”
lets remove the part of your brain that persieves pain
Surgeon: Hits bong in middle of surgery* “you know what fuck it let’s just take the whole fucking brain out”
It's like when your car throws a fault code on the Diesel Particulate Filter being full, and instead of fixing it, you rip the thing out from the car and reprogram the engine control unit to believe there is no Diesel Particulate Filter.
@Ritter_cracker
When our cars alternator was shitting the bed the car computer would auto shut down the car and my dad deadass convinced the car the broken as fuck alternator was fine. Fuckin hate car computers
This was only done for epilepsy...
"We have to go somewhere cold, somewhere dark, somewhere scary"
Connecticut
I thought we where going to Ohio
I thought you were just joking until I got to that part of the video lmaoo
I shudder at the thought of Cincinnati.
I live in CT
i thought russia
As someone with pretty much the same condition, this is fucking horrific to me. I have issues with my frontal lobe due to seizures daily, my trigger for my seizures is audio, so yknow, cant really just cut that outta my brain.
I have severe memory issues, and at 15... i had my first grand mal seizure. I see myself as him and im horrified of my future. Ill probably forget i wrote this.
I'm sometimes asked how i remember stuff, i dont, it just happens. I cannot remember 4 years of my life, fully. But i have bits pop up sometimes. Psychologist said im continually suffering retrograde amnesia and anterograde.
Yaaay
Do what you can with the knowledge you have to have as many fulfilling occasions as possible. Memory or no memory, you can still chase your dreams.
You are of a different time than Henry, so your fate will be different in some way.
Glad you found this video.
Good luck, good luck. :)
@@ThisIsWEB he won't reply or see this, he forgot he even wrote this and wTched the video lol
Turn on notifications for replies so you can try to remember this comment!
@@dull9510 Reply Notifications maybe
@@demonicloaf2100 ironically truthfully this is the only reason i remembered this comment lol
Me: *gets straight Fs throughout school*
Literally everyone else: "The Mystery of the Half Brain Man"
They re the ones
Bcz school grades dont measure intelligence, they are dumb and outdated
@@benjii_boi what the cinnamon toast FUCK
@Kazumaf Nah ,jojo is the worst anime ever made in all of existence shortly after clannad. Smh. Ffs its sad how many of you there are. Proof that average is really far below lmfao
Lobotomy results are like "Look! Before, she didn't wear makeup and didn't dress all nice and wasn't smiling, now she's normal!"
... what?
@@minaxaArt double what?
Lmfao I didn't even notice that before! Takes "you should smile more" to a whole new level
@@minaxaArt some lobotomies were performed on women who didn't act "normal" or were considered "crazy" aka didn t conform to gender roles
@@xxcexx2053 oh thats fucked up-
I can't even begin to fathom what it must have been like for him to sit back and have a part of his brain drilled out while he was awake. Absolutely terrifying.
He probably forgot.
@@incription I feel like I'm going to hell for laughing at that now
Funnily enough, because the brain tissue doesn't have any nociceptors, once you get past the scalp he really wouldn't have felt anything (assuming the scalp was numbed properly). It probably would have sounded really weird though, like, maybe some squishy noises coming from INSIDE your own head.
The limbic system is in the middle of your brain and this area was not drilled. A portion of this system was removed. There would be no physical way to drill out an MTL without damaging a LOT of brain tissue on the way in. This video gets a LOT wrong about a case study that is really easy to look up and that there are literally dozens of books on.
isnt this how they do brain surgery today though?
"Uh, I think about one year... or more.."
"It had been *4O years."*
shits scary
technically he wasn’t wrong
@@peterbohn9367 yknow what youre right
that O replacing the 0 hurts me.
keep it there.
@@MochaFur1 :)
Uh
0:23 the is actually a closing flag, and is used to denote the end of the modifier in HTML. You should have in the intro and at the end.
Vsauce, but British.
T-sauce
I was about to say D-sauce but then realised what I was about to say
B-sauce
13 or 30?
@@AjSmit1 Bsauce = Brown Sauce
im a psych major, so ive already studied a lot about HM, including the amazing advancements his unfortunate situation has lead to. however, ive never seen anyone humanize him in such an empathetic way. its easy to forget that Henry was a real person with real feelings and experienced something that no one else has, especially with how most all psychologists still just refer to him as HM instead of his name even though his identity was revealed years ago. its a problem that plagues the psychological community, so thank you for bring humanity to this case study
no its not easy to forget. Not to normal humans
psychiatrists are just inhumane af
I first heard about this guy in a 'Dark Matters' episode on the Science Channel, the series of course talks about the darkest parts of the scientific studies.
Oh, good another psych major who knows everything.
@@sabaaras I understand and agree with your point about the way in which psych students are likely to fort encounter Henry's story, and how that is likely to shape the way that they relate to him (or don't). But I found the first sentences of your comment rather curious. If a lack of empathy doesn't make someone "a bad person", then what does? Isn't this how we define "evil"? Personally, I don't believe in punishing people who lack empathy or have little to no moral compass. I think our only concern as a society should be preventing such people from hurting those around them. But I do think such people are "evil". That is just the definition of the word. If we don't define evil as the capacity to commit acts of cruelty, then how do we define it?
@@ahobimo732 i agree with what youre saying. just because someone is evil by *definition,* doesnt mean they deserve to be punished or treated worse. i personally lack empathy, and any time its brought up everyone looks at me with a disgusted look. i dont think i, or anyone like me, is a *bad person.*
we just feel and think differently than the "average" person
I am just wondering about his emotional state. Was he always confused and distressed/sad about his lack of memory? Or was he in a state of blissful ignorance, enjoying every moment for the first time?
he has no idea how long he has lived, or how long he might live. he simply exists in the moment. i don't think that level of awareness would be enough to have him realize the tragedy (or blissfulness) of the situation at all
You ever just go into a state of nothing thinking? That's what I can imagine he went through. No major thought into the future or past, not even any thought for the present. Just nothing
@Styx imagine if he did lsd lol
@@Gaizaz Now you're thinking like a 70s psychologist!
@@bronghusphidalski522 This statement is very accurate.
Reminder that scientists of that era gave pigeons LSD just to see what happened.
Memory is an amazing thing. I took acid when I was about 25 and during the trip I went back into my 1 year old self when I was learning to talk and how pronounced words and toys I played with. It was amazing and truly shows how incredible the brain is.
And thats how you become a drug addict
@@content1006 this was 7 years ago and I dont do drugs anymore but thanks for your concern
@Content 100 yes, because acid is a very addictive, habit forming drug. Totally.
@@content1006 acid isn't addictive lmao
@@hey639 weed is addictive, food is addictive, sex is addictive.. If you develop a love for something and dont moderate it in a healthy manner then it becomes an addiction.. How do I know? My brother used my card and spent $500 bucks on weed and shrooms.
one of my biggest fears is large scale memory issues, this situation is terrifying
My grandpa is currently suffering this now and it's very clear that it causes him distress. You can tell he's frustrated by his inability to remember. It's very sad. 😭
Once you have it tho, youll maybe forget that your scared about it and youll finally be relieved of your fears. Still sucks tho.
You're gonna love eateot!
I'm currently suffering from the same issue. I had no idea it was an issue until I met my girlfriend who remembers everything in vivid detail.
@@Psythik does she tell you all the time that you and her talked about it but for some reason you don't remember that conversation at all? It's not you... Trust me. 😂
The phrase "I need you to go inside my mouth" at 12:50 has very big vsauce energy and I love it
It seems like a reference to the intro from the 'How Many Holes Does A Human Have?' video. Also, Alsina (the "Vsauce font") was used at the beginning of this video.
leaving this at 69 likes but just know that i appreciated it
this channel is very vsauce esc
And a very yikes for hearing it out of context
I respect the pfp
This story, specifically the surgery, is the epitome of “the light at the end of the tunnel is a train.”
"I think we're almost there, I can see som-"
-Famous Last Words
“Now Henry, how did you remember that?” How the hell is he supposed to answer that!?
It's gotta be frustrating not being able to answer as well :/
It’s like asking the average person why gravity works.
It just does.
“It’s been forty years since he lost his memory” damn I got chills, I can’t imagine how frightening that must be
Well truth be told it wouldn't be because he doesn't remember it
Could be a blessing if someone had PTSD or couldn't live with something they did. Might prevent a suicide. Try watching Memento.
he is the only one to be truly living in the moment
@@jumpvelocity3953 Lmfaoo
Watch Dominion, it's frightening
This is a subject that both fascinates and terrifies me. Oblivion is perhaps the cruellest fate, because you wouldn't be able to remember it was happening to you, or that you once felt differently about things and that your life used to be completely different. Memory is what drives us and inspires us.
its not cruel to him though, its cruel to his loved ones.
Flowgang Semauda Martoz it is cruel to him too even though he can’t remember it. It’s really dark and fucked up
@@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 you should watch Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
But he good tho
Awake brain surgery is actually relatively normal nowadays because it has some advantages, like monitoring the speech of the patient in real time
@@WhatTheHell919 you sure literally *everybody* who clicked this video knows anything about neuroscience?
It might surprise you, but there are a lot of people who never looked up anything related to neuro science (including brain surgery) ever. So no, not everyone knows that.
@@WhatTheHell919 not everybody knows that, actually. look up "xkcd ten thousand". maybe that can help you to stop being rude and making absurd assumptions that something is known by everyone.
@@WhatTheHell919 I didn't know that.
@@sinom what did he say
@@Uvuv6969 judging from the other comments probably something like "everyone knows that"
Look at you man! The channel is getting very high end now, lookin' great. I actually have damages to my brain that make it very difficult to make memories long term. I have, fortunately, trained myself to do this manually with things I feel are of greatest import, and some of your early videos are amongst those "forged" recollections. Muscle memory is the trick. Associating memories to sensory perceptions. This is where a lot of our channel's premise comes from. My apologies if I have already told you this before.
I used to get a lot of noise at work because each day was like my first, but I have begun to master my tasks now and things are about to change. Wish me skill.
@@soulmechanics7946 do you feel you enjor more the present?
I think that's me
Nice
Woah i didnt expect you to be here soarin.
You and me both lol
no one likes you
69
He sounded nice and polite, he most likely didn’t remember hate or any problems but also the flip side he remembered very little good so he most likely treated anyone how they treated him
Molaison was very much prone to bursts of angry confusion. Emotions can be associated with memory, but are not reliant on systems of encoding/memory. He also remembered decades of his life preceding his operation. He seemed to treat everyone with the same politeness one would a stranger, because as far as he knew, everyone he met following his procedure was a stranger to him, even those he saw daily for years.
Disrupt has such an amazing way of telling coherent and interesting stories
not enough time has even passed for you to have watched the video
1 minute in and I already know it’s good lol
@@mcrawfish Couldn't size up the opportunity to be first commenter
Btw he isn't the creator of disrupt, I believe its jak?
i think it was vrtual that told the story jak the creator definitely does a good job in his videos but for this video specifically it was vrtual
Thank you for not showing that little boy having a grand mal seizure. I dont think my heart could have taken that.
your videos always lead me to some deep thinking
Deep 😏
same, I love his type of content, reminds me of nexpo, barely sociable and lemmino
Like Deep Deep
You may have seen a human today who lived its last day today
Even there is a chance someone in this comment section lived it last day today
@@SLAlMI you wanna know something more deep and weird man! I searched up just “.” On the RUclips search and omg. That is some scary stuff.
When I look at his face he looks in his early 20s, but when the moustache comes into context he looks in his 30s; my brain is confused and can't choose between the two
looks worse than a perve stache on a 12 year old. honestly dude should shave it off. the looks not working on him. in 15 years or so he might grow into it.. might.. 🤷♂️
I think hes trying to look like that other young youtube guy who grew out the moustache and rocks suspenders.. honestly looks not believable with that guy either.. but eh we were all young once.. did a great job on the vid otherwise 👍
I bet he pulls in major bounty with it though
@@richardwelsh7901
Oh for sure, and more power to him..
@@atomicdawg100 thoughty2?
That hair tho - did he cut it with kindergarten scissors?
I don't think it's that great to not remember. Your memories determine the actions and decisions that you make, and your actions define the person you are. Your memories are the backbone of your being
Yeah, they give context to your existence.
this is just making me think of blade runner
I feel I should mention how absolutely stunning the editing and special effects in this video. The production quality is breathtaking, I've seen big budget movies that pale in comparison to this.
8:20 Did he say "I'm back?". That's scary if so, he doesn't know that he had a seizure but he felt like he left or went somewhere else, but then the absence itself he can't recall. I can't imagine how painful this was for the people around him to see this happen real time.
as somebody with petit mals, nobody actually seems to care a lot.
I’m positive he understood he had a seizure lol
@@Mikey-jv5fv Yea, I've had partial focal seizures my whole life iirc (medicated now, thankfuly). I thought they were just normal when I was a kid but it's very obvious when it happens.
16:10
I literally just started watching this and got, “Top 10 Foods that can Prevent Memory Loss
Daily reminder that our corporate overlords are always listening in and watching us.
LMAOOO
@@beepbeep2174 Yeah and they barely even try to hide it
@@adarshvenkateswaran795 but then they lose money
not having long-term memories is the human equivalent of having every drive on your PC cleared every random interval of minutes
Crunch
It's more like the equivalent of not even having a hard drive and only having RAM
@@memeomeme8351 yea
@@memeomeme8351 RAM can stay until you restart though
@@chonkydog6262 if ram doesn’t go away when you turn off your pc that’s probably because some pc’s have settings where they are allowed to load off the ram onto the hard drive until it’s turned back on again
I love how this is sort of like a Vsauce but with even more visual effects, and the visuals are great.
And no annoying bits or obnoxious voices.
Notice the vsauce font!
"Henry's temporal lobe was *screwed* out, by a surgeon." Thankfully he preferred a phillips head, because a flat head would have been messy.
@@Erikjohanneson It’s about damn time.💯
@@Erikjohanneson popping the champagne to put in me Golden Grahams as we speak.
Where can I find the nearest surgeon willing to screw my brains out?
“Messy”
The Connecticut joke is the greatest and funniest use of cutting ive ever seen
This is insane. Imagine trading one personal hell for another.
Disco Elysium AND Subnautica BGM? Nice pick!!
man it really did make me happy when i first heard the subnautica bgm
heard a bit of bladerunner in there too
heard Disco Elysium and immediately went to the comments
Also Outlast BGM when talking about lobotomy
"Calvin, your dog was always sitting"
...
"Stand"
😂
I came for this comment
@@maskrlzxw6823 Same.
I feel bad for this guy, he forgot everything, he forgot his childhood, he forgot his friends, he forgot his parents.
Everything is a burning memory
Don’t bro
*horns start playing*
Is that so bad for him tho? Think of this exact day 10 years ago. Are you sad because you can't remember it? Everything was like that to him. I still wish he could have lived a normal life though.
Bro no
An entire life of Post Awareness Confusions
I remember seeing the bbc documentary about the british musician that lost part off his brain due to a virus, and after that he completely lost his long term memory, but he could remember, some really small details like plate numbers. At the end I came to my own conclusion that he basically lost his consciousness. He would constantly wake up to the present moment and be like "oh, that's me, I don't know me, but I'm here now even not knowing what here actually means".
I saw that one too, very fascinating.
His name's Clive Wearing iirc
Btw no joke but this is actually my brother who made this and it so cool
90% of comments: “Yo guys, I think disrupt made a video about me.”
Other 10% of comments: “This channel is gonna blow up soon.”
I would be the 10 percent but have you seen the sub count?
Man too true. And too cringy.
@@BrendenPragasam yeah they are almost at 1M
when he asked if you could forget how to breath, my anxiety did a triple backflip :/
You can in some severe cases. You don’t forget, but your brain regresses to not knowing how If that makes sense. Happens with brain tumors sometimes, or dementia.
@@brunobucciaratiswife terrifying
That's what often happens when you take opioids, you forget to breathe for a while. usually you remember to, but in a warm bath for example.. lots of people died this way, and not from overdose
@@u1337ochka apparently u dont even need drugs, i talked to a paramedic and they say they get calls all the time from peoples muscles seizing up from lack of oxygen because they the think they having a stroke or seizure, but in reality people just don't know how to breathe properly...:/
In some cases of dementia, the patient dies of starvation
They forget how to eat and drink, so they die
If I live long enough to have dementia, I'm going to kill myself the pain isn't worth it
I forgot how to yawn for a few weeks and it was miserable. Like a yawn would start and id get to the point where my mouth was wide and i was breathing out but then i didnt know how to finish it so i would awkwardly stop and just closed my mouth. It was way more miserable than you would think.
Happens to me a few times a year
i went for a nap one day and woke up unable to read or write or understand english. i would type something on my keyboard but it didn't make any sense and i couldn't tell if i was typing real words or not. i tried using the alphabet letters on our fridge to no avail. i was a kid when this happened and my dad wasn't home so despite being very distressed i just went back to bed, and when i woke up i was able to understand english again. brains and memory is weird as fuck.
@@niraea Jesus! i would have been booting up hooked on phonics instantly
@@niraea might wanna get that checked by a professional
One time when I was a wee lad somebody on my bus tried to hold his breath for a long time and accedentally forgot how to for a few seconds
Bruh wait till they discover my body and discover the no brain man
This story gives me so much anxiety. I can't imagine just... Any of this.
the fact that you worry about it is good because if you lost your lobe you wouldn’t have to worry :)
then don't
Just forget about it jk but just don't worry about the chance of this happening is so low especially now in days with better tools and things that are just overall better so the chance of this happening to you is under 0.1%
I think I remember learning about this in psychology. My profs referred to what Henry had as "anterograde amnesia" - being able to remember your past, but being unable to create new memories (as opposed to retrograde amnesia, where you forget your past but are able to create new memories). While it was assumed for a long time that Henry wasn't capable of remembering who he was, he was actually able to learn new things - like floor plans, recognizing and being comfortable around people he had met, and more. I really love how to presented everything in this video - it's easy to understand and gives more perspective on the case!
I had to research lobotomies as an assignment in elementary school. I hated it. I was only in 4-5 grade. I still can't believe it was a legitament assignment.
bruh
The FUCK
Me being 18 barely was able to watch real
videos before and after or even interviews about the subject, I’d be fucked up if I knew about it younger tbh
*Legitimate. I’m going to guess English wasn’t a requirement for your schooling?
@@luigicadorna8644
*layjittamayte
Good to see my man going up from littlebigplanet to disrupt videos
I laughed out loud when, after the intro with the narrator saying, "It had been 40 years since Henry had lost his memory," then the commercial began with an announcer saying. "This is a real B&H customer story."
lmaooo oh no 😂
Lol
16:19 "What about breathing? Do you have a memory you're pulling from to remind yourself to breathe?"
Me: Starts to breathe heavily
This easily beats any documentary on Netflix. This video was a shock to watch and was so well made.
It's also super wrong! 🌈 I'm a PhD psych student not specializing in memory, but having worked in a prominent memory lab in my undergrad and taken numerous specialty courses on it. I'd highly encourage searching Henry Molaison and referring to literally any of the first 20 results which accurately cover memory systems, how HM contributed to our understanding of them, and more about his life, but without the errors and misrepresentations here.
@@kenziescout2343 your wrong
@@erkyperky9017 you also got a phd?
@@xxcexx2053 yes
@@erkyperky9017 you’re
My guy looks like a Pirate.
My dad lost a lot of his brain to cancer and had a stroke sometimes hell repeat stuff to me like right after he said it its hard :/ its amazing that the brain can still work and the body can survive like that anyway
yeah my grandpa used to do that a lot really breaks my heart that when i was young i just thought he was doing it to mess with me or to be funny
this is like emo vsauce
Yeah but better
no
@@Alphabet_poop definitely not.
Disrupt is good, but come on.
wsauce
yes i know my comment is cringe
@@Alphabet_poop not better for sure but they can try with their edgy aesthetics
3:15
this feels like watching Adult Swim late at night at 3 AM
Late at night at 3 AM is redundant.
@@sirsmokeefortwence25 well done
@@sirsmokeefortwence25 don’t know why I keep seeing you all over this comment section but I salute you, fellow (possibly high) Canadian!
top 10 cursed adult swim bumpers
does anybody know the specific song used at 3:15? i thought it was some boards of canada track since it has the same type of soft sounding synth chords but especially since a few boc songs were used as adult swim bumpers. skimmed through a few boc and aphex twin albums and couldnt find the song
i remember as a kid asking my parents, if Gilderoy Lockhart zapped away his memory why didn't he forget to speak? now it makes a mid more sense that talking is more of a muscle memory than an actual memory
15:57 you know it’s intense when the subnautica music starts playing
As soon as I got there I started searching for this comment, just keep swimming.
@@midnight_mastermind1264 Same
@@Kaliskot its just the into the unknown song i dont think theres any specific part where this one plays
“how long have you had trouble remembering things?” “i don’t remember”
I thought you were trying to test my memory having a drawn on mustache in one clip, and then not having a beard in another.
That's why no one can truly know you or what you truly want but you only. He appeared "well", but that was the whole problem from the beginning, trying to make him look "well"
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
That one guy: telling his sitting dog to sit
*SIT*
*SIT*
*SIT*
*SIT*
“Your dog was always sitting”
“.............stand..”
"I see you have trouble remembering things."
"HoW lOnG hAvE yoU HaD tRoUble ReMeMberiNG tHiNgs?" This is equivalent to asking someone with Alzheimers where they were on a specific date
That's something they may be able to answer depending on the date and degeneration they have experienced.
Yeah that lady was asking stupid shit
Ever been to a doctor? Stupid questions is the name of the game
it's not an stupid question when you are trying to understand and figure it out his own perception of time/memory not just the perception of everyone else which is clearly an obvious perception, that's why it's an interview. She is not asking what is 2+2 to a perfectly "normal" person.
So if he answered with exactly how long he's had trouble remembering things, that changes all of their research. They need to get as much information as they can, even if the answer seems obvious
I can just hear "Everywhere at the end of time" slowly start to play in the background
The thing is, he had no past to remember anyway, you don't feel your memory disappearing, there was no memories to begin with after this point.
@@tristanraine In other words, it isnt dimentia, i know but it isinteresting how many typse of memory loss there are
*hears Temporary Bliss State*
"Notto disu shitto agen"
Time is just perception, and perception is relative
This guy’s videos are absolutely phenomenal. I do not understand how videos of such high quality are being made without this guy even having 1 million subs. Keep it up
soon
Pro Tip: If you're drilling into someone's skull don't use a phillips head bit.
Was wondering about that....
@@charliepearce8767 XD year
I already know this is going to be good without even watching it yet.
he looks so happy in his photographs which only makes it worse
This episode hit me hard. I have these seizures. Started with the absence seizures had them since 5 or 6 on the daily...had my first gran mal seizure at 21. Since then, I've had three or four of those larger seizures. For me, the absence seizures can easily gateway into the larger seizures if you have enough of them in a short period of time. Usually triggered by stress, brain activity (overthinking) and lack of sleep...but what's troublesome is that I used to pride myself on remembering things in vivid detail from a young age. Lately, I find myself forgetting how old I am. What I've done this morning, or yesterday...could be age. But is scares me none the less.
Damn. I hope your doing okay right now, and that you can get something to help stop your seizures from happening so frequently. You can talk to me any time on discord or snapchat if you'd like to speak more or anything! Just ask me!
I have the same kind of problems!! But no doctor will investigate. I did have something where finally my vision went away completely over like 5 seconds and i had to lay down to stop myself from passing out and falling down stairs. But i cant remember my age a lot of the time too and things like what day it is. What did you do to get it investigated?
Please please talk to your doctor (I am one myself) any change that is troubling or effecting your quality of life is a big concern that needs to be addressed. Your neurologist may want to run some tests and perhaps move you to a different medication. I can’t legally give you medical advice without you being my patient, however, I strongly suggest you to communicate your concerns to your health care team. I wish you the best
@@faithdoerner9262 please don’t give up. Try to see if you can speak to a neurologist. That’s very upsetting to me that you weren’t taken seriously. I’m truly sorry. I hope you get your health journey started soon
"Were gonna have to go back. Back somewhere cold. Somewhere dark. Someone.. scary."
*Connecticut*
“It’s incredible that the human body can survive without the frontal lobe”
The bite of 1940-somethin
@@frankenweenie2077 I hate how I still know that it's actually 1987 lmao
@@lemonpeaches8314 it's only been 7 years, and it's not like FNaF ever left the mainstream since Markiplier's let's play
This is the most disturbing way to retain information ever
This video activated my media-temporal lobe. Good job disrupt.
that must be so weird to feel your memories be literally sucked out of you, just "my mom" then suddenly "whos mom" then just, no memories other then nothing
So
1. What a huge production level
2. You just made the best skillshare ad
Man 2 "Your dog has always been sitting"
Man 1 "Stand"
For my fifth birthday, my neighbour gifted me a book on neuroscience. (Yes, I know that's a strange gift for a five-year-old.) I used to read it all the time, but especially the section on memory. I was always so interested in it. I wanted to be a neuroscientist and find a cure for Alzheimer's. In particular, there was this one section I read _so much_ that the book automatically opens to that page if you just pull the covers apart. I still have that book, and when you said he was referred to as "Patient H.M." I grabbed it, and opened it to that page, and right there, the second sentence: "In 1953, a young man called H.M. underwent an operation for epilepsy."
I am not a neuroscientist. I developed schizophrenia in middle school and started drinking heavily to cope. Now I have absence seizures, as well as alcohol-related memory deficiencies that make forming new long-term memories extremely difficult. The irony isn't lost on me.
Super interesting, thanks for making these documentaries! (also awesome Subnautica music around 16:00 lol)
When I heard it I went scrolling through the comments
I like that during the memory sections you play the Disco Elysium soundtrack, a game about a messed up detective who's lost all memory of his past. Well played
3:38 is the most odd video editing Uve ever seen; they’re not in sinc yet if you look at his lips the audio isn’t delayed and each of them are all in a different state... really cool