The mammillary bodies: Two memory systems in one?

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-44

  Vann, Seralynne D ^a   Aggleton, John P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEMORY; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0346024191     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1299     Document Type: Review

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