Limbic and Fornix

Question 1

Limbic cortex / medial temporal lobe and amnesia: Damage to what can produce anterograde amnesia or make amnesia associated with hippo damage worse?

Answer 1

Entorhinal, perirhinal, and parahippocampal

Question 2

Fornix / mammillary bodies: projections from….

Answer 2

hippo (subiculum) through fornix to mammillary bodies and anterior thalamus

Question 3

Fornix / mammillary bodies: Case reports indicate

Answer 3

damage anywhere in the fornix, mammillary bodies or anterior thalamus causes amnesia