Behavioural Neurology (Jan 1994)

Anterograde and Retrograde Amnesia following Bitemporal Infarction

  • A. Schnider,
  • M. Regard,
  • T. Landis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3233/ben-1994-7207
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 2
pp. 87 – 92

Abstract

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A patient suffered very severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia following infarction of both medial temporal lobes (hippocampus and adjacent cortex) and the left inferior temporo-occipital area. The temporal stem and the amygdala were intact; these structures do not appear to be critical for new learning in humans. Extension of the left-sided infarct into the inferior temporo-occipital lobe, an area critically involved in visual processing, appears to be responsible for our patient's loss of remote memories.