Retrograde amnesia for facts and events: Findings from four new cases

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3943-3954

  Reed, Jonathan M ^a   Squire, Larry R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde amnesia; Autobiographical memory; Fact memory; Hippocampal formation; Medial temporal lobe; Retrograde amnesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LITERATURE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SCORING SYSTEM; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032525316     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-10-03943.1998     Document Type: Article

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