dr. moffett: so, there's this guy who was one day found wandering along the side of the highway and the state policeman who picked him up asked him his name and he gave his name and said that he was stationed at a nearby army base and gave his age as 22 years old. and i don't know if the officer realized it or not but he must have appeared at least a decade older than that because he was and he didn't live at this army base anymore although he had been stationed there when he was about 22. and it turns out that he had just lost all of the memories of the last 11 years. gone! he didn't remember that he had had two kids. he thought that his wife was still just about to have the first kid and he had no memory of the second child, no memory of his post-military career, nothing. and it turned out that he had a cyst that was pressing on the conduit between the hippocampus and the rest of the brain. once the cyst was drained, all of his memories returned. what this is.. is a really rare living example of the the most interesting thing i think about the hippocampus and memory which is that for memori