RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Korsakoff's syndrome resulting from bilateral fornix lesions
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 490
OP 490
DO 10.1212/WNL.27.5.490
VO 27
IS 5
A1 KENNETH M. HEILMAN
A1 GEORGE W. SYPERT
YR 1977
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/27/5/490.abstract
AB A patient with a well-circumscribed neoplasm, which destroyed the posterior fornix bilaterally, developed a profound disturbance of recent memory. Unlike previously reported patients who had undergone anterior fornix sections and whose memories were not severely disturbed, this patient's posteriorly located lesion may have cut off hippocampal input into the mamillary bodies and the dorsomesial nucleus, thereby producing a severe amnestic state.