Scoville was overambitious and underinformed, but it's also important to remember that HM was living with debilitating seizures that made daily life almost unbe

Scoville was overambitious and underinformed, but it's also important to remember that HM was living with debilitating seizures that made daily life almost unbearable. And for context, this is the era in which Walter Freeman was perfecting frontal lobotomy techniques that eventually left tens of thousands of individuals with gross cognitive impairments. At least Scoville had the sense to realize what he'd done and stop.