Skip to main content
PMC home page
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry logoLink to Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
. 1957 Feb;20(1):11–21. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.20.1.11

LOSS OF RECENT MEMORY AFTER BILATERAL HIPPOCAMPAL LESIONS

William Beecher Scoville 1,2,3, Brenda Milner 1,2,3
PMCID: PMC497229  PMID: 13406589

Full text

PDF
21

Images in this article

12Image
on p.12
13Image
on p.13
13Image
on p.13
14Image
on p.14
14Image
on p.14
15Image
on p.15

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. BENGOCHEA F. G., DE LA TORRE O., ESQUIVEL O., VIETA R., FERNANDEZ C. The section of the fornix in the surgical treatment of certain epilepsies; a preliminary report. Trans Am Neurol Assoc. 1954;13(79TH):176–178. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. GLEES P., GRIFFITH H. B. Bilateral destruction of the hippocampus (cornu ammonis) in a case of dementia. Monatsschr Psychiatr Neurol. 1952 Apr-May;123(4-5):193–204. doi: 10.1159/000140010. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. GLOOR P., JASPER H., MILNER B. Higher functions of the nervous system. Annu Rev Physiol. 1956;18:359–386. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ph.18.030156.002043. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. MACLEAN P. D. Some psychiatric implications of physiological studies on frontotemporal portion of limbic system (visceral brain). Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol. 1952 Nov;4(4):407–418. doi: 10.1016/0013-4694(52)90073-4. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. MILNER B. Intellectual function of the temporal lobes. Psychol Bull. 1954 Jan;51(1):42–62. doi: 10.1037/h0054728. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. PETIT-DUTAILLIS D., CHRISTOPHE J., PERTUISET B., DREYFUS-BRISAC C., BLANC C. Lobectomie temporale bilatérale pour épilepsie; évolution des perturbations fonctionnelles postopératoires. Rev Neurol (Paris) 1954;91(2):129–133. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  7. PRIBRAM K. H., KRUGER L. Functions of the "olfactory brain". Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1954 Mar 24;58(2):109–138. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1954.tb54849.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  8. SCOVILLE W. B., DUNSMORE R. H., LIBERSON W. T., HENRY C. E., PEPE A. Observations on medial temporal lobotomy and uncotomy in the treatment of psychotic states; preliminary review of 19 operative cases compared with 60 frontal lobotomy and undercutting cases. Res Publ Assoc Res Nerv Ment Dis. 1953;31:347–373. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  9. SCOVILLE W. B. The limbic lobe in man. J Neurosurg. 1954 Jan;11(1):64–66. doi: 10.3171/jns.1954.11.1.0064. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  10. SCOVILLE W. B., WILK E. K., PEPE A. J. Selective cortical undercutting; results in new method of fractional lobotomy. Am J Psychiatry. 1951 Apr;107(10):730–738. doi: 10.1176/ajp.107.10.730. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  11. TERZIAN H., ORE G. D. Syndrome of Klüver and Bucy; reproduced in man by bilateral removal of the temporal lobes. Neurology. 1955 Jun;5(6):373–380. doi: 10.1212/wnl.5.6.373. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  12. WILLIAMS M., PENNYBACKER J. Memory disturbances in third ventricle tumours. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1954 May;17(2):115–123. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.17.2.115. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry are provided here courtesy of BMJ Publishing Group

RESOURCES