Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Bilkey, D. K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Bilkey, D. K.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Brain, Vol. 127, No. 5, 1211-1212, 2004
© 2004 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awh056

Book Review

THE PARAHIPPOCAMPAL REGION: ORGANIZATION AND ROLE IN COGNITIVE FUNCTION

THE PARAHIPPOCAMPAL REGION: ORGANIZATION AND ROLE IN COGNITIVE FUNCTION
By Menno Witter and Floris Wouterlood
2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Price £69.50. ISBN 0–19–850917–0.

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

In 1953 the patient known by his initials as H.M. underwent surgery to have tissue removed from his medial temporal lobes for the purposes of controlling intractable epilepsy. Upon awakening from the procedure he was found to have acquired a profound anterograde (and temporally graded retrograde) amnesia. This event triggered an eruption of research activity aimed at determining which particular temporal lobe structures were critically involved in the memory dysfunction. By the 1970s and early 1980s it began to look as though the hippocampus and perhaps the amygdala were responsible for the acquisition of consciously accessible, declarative memory and that damage to these structures alone was sufficient to produce the amnesic syndrome. As a result, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

David K. Bilkey

Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?