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VALENTINO D. B. MAZZIA, MD; CLARK RANDT, MD

Arch Neurol. 1966;14(5):522-525.

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CORRELATION of lack of parallel eye centering with amnesia for on-going events under first stage anesthesia has been noted in the operating and recovery rooms during the past three years. Of particular interest is the observation that, despite amnesia, patients in this plane of anesthesia could give personal information, were oriented, could perform arithmetical manipulations and complicated motor acts, as well as demonstrate intactness of remote memory. With return of eye centering, recording of events which may be retrieved is resumed. We have documented this phenomenon and related it to other information concerning memory fixation in animals and in man.

In studies of recent memory loss in man, attention has been drawn to the hippocampalfornix-mamillary system on the basis of clinical pathologic correlations in Wernicke's syndrome and in bilateral hippocampal infarctions, as reported by Victor et al.¹ Scoville and Milner² described a marked deficit in recent memory . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, School of Medicine, New York University, New York.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 14, 1965; accepted Jan 3, 1966.

Read in part before the American Neurological Association, Atlantic City, NJ, June 15, 1965.

Reprint requests to Department of Anesthesiology, New York University Medical Center, New York 10016 (Dr. Mazzia).

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