THE NEUROANATOMY OF AMNESIA: AMYGDALA-HIPPOCAMPUS VERSUS TEMPORAL STEM

Using a task-known to be sensitive to human amnesia, we have evaluated two current hypotheses about which brain regions must be damaged to produce the disorder. Monkeys with bilateral transections of the white matter of the temporal stem were unimpaired, but monkeys with conjoint amygdala-hippocampal lesions exhibited a severe memory deficit. The results indicate that the hippocampus, amygdala, or both, but not the temporal stem, are involved in memory in the monkey and suggest that a rapprochement between the findings for the human and the nonhuman primate may be close at hand.

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  American University

  Development Education and Training Research Institute
  Washington, DC  United States 
• Publication Date: 1982-12-24

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 2 p.
• Serial:
  • Science
  • Volume: 218
  • Issue Number: 4579
  • Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • ISSN: 0036-8075
  • Serial URL: http://science.sciencemag.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Animals; Brain; Diseases and medical conditions; Experiments; Injuries
• Uncontrolled Terms: Amnesia
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00376282
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-034 174
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 30 1983 12:00AM