Question

After experiencing a series of head injuries while playing professional football, Arie has begun to struggle with remembering the names of friends and even family members. His memory difficulties are most likely to be due to damage to his:
a. hippocampus.
b. medulla.
c. amygdala.
d. hypothalamus.

Answer 1

Answer:

a. hippocampus.                                                              

Explanation:

Hippocampus: The term "hippocampus" is defined as one of the complex "brain structure" which is being deep-seated in an individual's temporal lobe of the brain. The hippocampus plays an important role in memory, motivation, emotion, and learning and is prone to getting damaged easily via any stimuli as it is made up of vulnerable and plastic structure.

If an individual experience damage to the hippocampus through any sort of accident then the loss of memory occurs and even the person won't be able to make new long-term memories.

In the question above, Arie's memory difficulties are most likely to be due to damage to his hippocampus.