Copied this from another forum I am on:
Neuroscience history taking place.
http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/
The brain of patient H.M. is being sectioned today, right now (there is a link for a live feed on that page).
Some of you already know this , but H.M. was
a patient who received a bilateral hippocampal removal - which resulted
in profound anterograde amnesia (similar to the man in the movie
"Memento", or Drew Barrymore in "50 first dates"), and which helped
clue everyone in on how important the hippocampus is for memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_(patient)
H.M. had been a big part of neuroscience research, as a subject
(particularly learning and memory research) since the surgery, and he
died last year. His brain is being sectioned in the lab of Jacopo
Annese, at UC San Diego
The purpose of the removal of the Bilateral Hippocampal removal was to fix the patients Epilepsy, which resulted in complete loss of the ability to change short term memory to long term memory.
Click the link, it is sureal.
Slightly NSFW, they are cutting apart an actual brain in live action. 