Henry Molaison (Patient H.M.) Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Henry Molaison (Patient H.M.)? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Henry Molaison (Patient H.M.) from Psychology & Neuroscience and what is the personality traits.
ISTJ (XwX)
Henry Molaison (Patient H.M.) personality type is ISTJ, sometimes called the "stern, exacting, and practical" type. ISTPs are also ISTJ, but they are described as sociable, creative, and spontaneous. INFJs are sometimes ISTP, but they are often described as charismatic, creative, and independent.
The ISTJ personality type is often described as "practical" and "controlling". William Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman, was an ISTJ.
The ISTJ personality type is also used as the default type for the "perfect" hero in fiction.
Henry Gustav Molaison was an American man who had a bilateral medial temporal lobectomy to surgically resect the anterior two thirds of his hippocampi, parahippocampal cortices, entorhinal cortices, piriform cortices, and amygdalae in an attempt to cure his epilepsy. Although the surgery was partially successful in controlling his epilepsy, a severe side effect was that he became unable to form new memories.
