Pinel TB 11 - U2 Blank

H.M.’s operation was a bilateral __________ temporal lobectomy.

H.M.’s main problem is that he cannot form new __________ long-term memories.

Medial temporal lobe epileptics often have good explicit long-term memories for

__________ information.

Damage to the __________ nuclei of the thalamus is currently thought to account for

many of the memory problems experienced by patients with Korsakoff’s syndrome.

The major source of the brain’s acetylcholine is often degenerated in Alzheimer’s

patients. This area is the __________.

Posttraumatic amnesia for events that occur in the period after a concussive blow to the

head is called __________ amnesia.

According to one hypothesis, each time a memory is retrieved from long-term storage it

is temporarily susceptible to alteration—it may be either strengthened or weakened

during this period. This process has been termed __________ .

The delayed nonmatching-to-sample test is a good measure of __________ long-term

object-recognition memory in both rats and monkeys.

The human medial temporal lobe includes the hippocampus, the __________, and the

medial temporal cortex.

The rhinal cortex (perirhinal cortex + entorhinal cortex) is an area of medial

___________ cortex.