PMID: 2494309Mar 1, 1989Paper

Lesions of the hippocampal formation but not lesions of the fornix or the mammillary nuclei produce long-lasting memory impairment in monkeys

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
S Zola-MorganD G Amaral

Abstract

A group of tasks sensitive to human amnesia were used to characterize the severity and duration of memory impairment in monkeys following bilateral damage to the hippocampal formation, fornix, or mammillary nuclei. Monkeys with hippocampal formation lesions (which included the hippocampus proper, dentate gyrus, subiculum, posterior entorhinal cortex, and much of the parahippocampal gyrus) exhibited a substantial and lasting memory impairment. Monkeys with fornix transection or bilateral damage to the mammillary nuclei were impaired on the first task administered after surgery (delayed nonmatching to sample). However, they performed all the other tasks normally and were unimpaired when the delayed nonmatching to sample task was re-administered 18 months after surgery. The findings are consistent with reports that damage limited to the human hippocampus can produce a clinically significant and permanent amnesia. Because fornix transection or mammillary lesions produced only transient memory impairment, it seems unlikely that similar damage in humans can cause a severe or permanent amnesia.

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