Amnesia after a discrete basal forebrain lesion

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作者
Abe, K [1 ]
Inokawa, M [1 ]
Kashiwagi, A [1 ]
Yanagihara, T [1 ]
机构
[1] Osaka Univ, Sch Med, Dept Neurol, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
关键词
diagonal band of Broca; amnesia; time tagging;
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10.1136/jnnp.65.1.126
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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摘要
Destructive lesions of the basal forebrain ape often associated with memory impairment and this structure is thought to contribute to memory function by providing a cholinergic input to critical structures associated with memory such as the hippocampus and amygdala. In previously reported cases of amnesia associated with damage in the basal forebrain, multiple neuroanatomical regions were damaged, and the critical lesion responsible for amnesia has not been identified clearly. We report a patient who developed primarily anterograde amnesia after clipping of an unruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysm. Postoperative magnetic resonance imaging showed a discrete lesion, centring in the right diagonal band of Broca and including the anterior hypothalamus, septal nucleus, lamina terminalis, and paraterminal gyrus, and an indiscrete patchy lesion in the corresponding area on the opposite side. The nucleus basalis of Meynert was minimally affected and the diencephalon was not damaged, Single photon emission computed tomography showed marked hypoperfusion in the midline frontobasal region corresponding to the MRI lesion and hypoperfusion in the hippocampus bilaterally. It is concluded that disconnection of the pathway between the diagonal band of Broca and the hippocampus contributed to memory impairment.
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