What's new with the amnesic patient H.M.?

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-160

  Corkin, Suzanne ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; CONVALESCENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

AGED; AMNESIA; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 0036481756     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn726     Document Type: Article

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