Absence of memory dysfunction after bilateral mammillary body and mammillothalamic tract electrode implantation: preliminary experience in three patients.

Abstract

The anatomic bases for memory disorders have been widely debated. Lesions of the medial dorsal (MD) and anterior nuclei (AN) of the thalami and lesions of the mammillary bodies (MB) are most commonly involved in amnesic syndromes in humans ([1][1], [2][2]). In a monkey model, Mishkin ([3][3])