Neuroanatomist jacopo annese will next week begin slicing one of the most precious pieces of tissue in the history of neuroscience : the brain of the famous amnesiac henry gustav molaison , more commonly known by his initials , h.m.
Now , none of this is terribly salacious-and it 's quite possible that the first neuroanatomist ever to use this term , the 17 th - century englishman thomas willis , had nary a dirty thought in mind .
