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Apparently HN loves neuroscience, but if we are to go through patients one by one it's going to take a long time. Better propose some introductory books.
For people interested in these things - another patient that I love reading about is Henry Molaison (HM). A coworker (a neuroscientist) told me a bit about the man and his condition, very interesting case.
Another similar case (albeit a more modern one) is Anatoli Bugorski, who caught his head in the path of a particle accelerator beam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

I currently work in a beam instrumentation project and jokingly refer to him as the patreon of beam instrumentation.

However, I don't think his case is very interesting in a neuroscience pov. He did not forego any major psychological changes after the incident.

I've read about him before. The fact that he is still alive is amazing.
A nigger in the classic sense doesn't understand a million a billion or a trillion. One nigger woman filed a lawsuit for a trillion dollars.

Psychologists have the lowest SAT scores. Phyiscs, top. Engineering just below.

A psychologist is a nigger. If you tell them "microsecond". It means nothing.

Find and engineer and ask him what would happen if you had multitasking and printed "i" when you pressed a key?...

    int i;

    void Thread()
    {
       while (TRUE)
          i++;
    }


    Ask the engineer if a neuron could syncronize to the counter and control the key.  Ask if a robot hand could do it, with all the switch delays of the mouse.
Every single electrical engineer will tell you... you need a phase-locked-loop to syncronize clocks. He will tell you that a brain has way too much jitter. He will laugh if you tell him it must plan a sequence of presses. A neuron is 10Hz. A nerve impulse is one meter in a millisecond. You are just like the nigger woman not understanding what a trillion is.