Question

A man is rushed to the hospital after an injury that severely damaged his hippocampus. What kinds of problems might he expect due to this damage?

Answer 1

It will result in a anterograde amnesia: Loss of ability to form new memories, although older memories may be safe. But, someone who sustains an injury to the hippocampus may have good memory of his/her childhood and the years before the injury, but relatively little memory for anything that happened since.

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