Accelerated forgetting of contextual details due to focal medio-dorsal thalamic lesion

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Tu, Sicong ^a,b   Miller, Laurie ^b,c   Piguet, Olivier ^a,b   Hornberger, Michael ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterograde memory; Mammillothalamic tract; MRI; Stroke; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTEROGRADE MEMORY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MAMMILLOTHALAMIC TRACT; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; RECALL; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908167301     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00320     Document Type: Article

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