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Report of a Case with Some Remarks on the Anatomical Basis of Memory

MAURICE VICTOR, M.D.; JAY B. ANGEVINE, JR., Ph.D.; ELLIOTT L. MANCALL, M.D.; C. MILLER FISHER, M.D.

Arch Neurol. 1961;5(3):244-263.

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In 1888, Sanger-Brown and Schafer¹ described an apparent disturbance of memory in monkeys after the partial or total removal of both temporal lobes. Two years later, Bechterew² in a very brief report, described a patient who had shown an extraordinary degree of memory disturbance, as well as considerable apathy for many years; in the region of the gyrus uncinatus and Ammon's horn in each temporal lobe, the cortex and underlying structures were said to be softened. The matter then lay dormant until 1954, when Scoville³ described a grave loss of recent memory in 2 patients after resection of the medial parts of both temporal lobes. The ablations extended posteriorly along the medial surfaces for a distance of about 8 cm. from the tips of the temporal lobes, and probably destroyed the anterior two-thirds of the hippocampus and hippocampal gyrus bilaterally, as well as the amygdala. Later, these . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Neurology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, The Warren Anatomical Museum, and the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neuropathology), and Anatomy, Harvard Medical School.

Present address: Department of Neurology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia (Dr. Mancall).

Footnotes
Received for publication May 26, 1961.

This work was aided in part by U.S. Public Health Grants B-152, B-1906, and B-731.

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