Human amnesia and the medial temporal region: enduring memory impairment following a bilateral lesion limited to field CA1 of the hippocampus

@inproceedings{ZolaMorgan1986HumanAA,
  title={Human amnesia and the medial temporal region: enduring memory impairment following a bilateral lesion limited to field CA1 of the hippocampus},
  author={Stuart M. Zola-Morgan and Larry R. Squire and D. G. Amaral},
  booktitle={The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience},
  year={1986}
}
During the past 100 years clinical studies of amnesia have linked memory impairment to damage of the hippocampus. Yet the damage in these cases has not usually been confined to the hippocampus, and the status of memory functions has often been based on incomplete neuropsychological information. Thus, the human cases have until now left some uncertainty as to whether lesions limited to the hippocampus are sufficient to cause amnesia. Here we report a case of amnesia in a patient (R.B.) who… 
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