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  2. Fornix (neuroanatomy) - Wikipedia

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    The fornix is essential for acquiring and consolidating new episodic memories. Fornix transection studies in macaques [1] have shown that the monkeys were strongly impaired on object-in-scene learning, which is a type of recall memory, specifically episodic-like memory (integrating what and where, although not when). Fornix transection in ...

  3. Anterograde amnesia - Wikipedia

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    Declarative memory can be further subdivided into episodic and semantic memory. Episodic memory is the recollection of autobiographical information with a temporal and/or spatial context, whereas semantic memory involves recall of factual information with no such association (language, history, geography, etc.).

  4. Trisynaptic circuit - Wikipedia

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    The fornix is a C-shaped bundle of axons that begins in the hippocampal formation of both hemispheres, referred to as the fimbria, and extend through the crus of fornix, also known as the posterior pillars. The fimbria section of the fornix is directly connected to the alveus, which is a portion of the hippocampal formation that arises from the ...

  5. How We Form Memories and Experience Memory Loss ... - AOL

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    Tracy’s lab at the Buck Institute is studying memory loss from Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. “Everybody experiences normal age-related cognitive decline, not just people ...

  6. Korsakoff syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Korsakoff syndrome (KS) [1] is a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by amnesia, deficits in explicit memory, and confabulation.This neurological disorder is caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B 1) in the brain, and it is typically associated with and exacerbated by the prolonged, excessive ingestion of alcohol. [2]

  7. Mammillary body - Wikipedia

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    Mammillary bodies, and their projections to the anterior thalamus via the mammillothalamic tract, are important for recollective memory. [7] According to studies of rats with mammillary body lesions, damage to the medial mammillary nucleus lead to spatial memory deficits.