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the accident that led to his brain injury?
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knocked down by a bicycle at age 7
As a result,he developed epilepsy and by the time he left school, he was having 10 petit mal seizures a day, and 1 grand mal seizure a week. |
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speculation about the approximate location(s) of brain damage following the accident?
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prepyriform gyrus
uncus amygdala hippocampus parahippocampal gyrus |
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a comparison of his pre-accident behaviour and cognition to those post-accident?
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had selective preservation of procedural memory
completely unable to transfer information into long-term memory (LTM). anterograde memory - incapable of learning new words low MQ = 67 - high IQ = 122 (spared) MQ/IQ diff. biggest ever recorded |
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the impact that this accident and its documentation have had on what we know today about the nature of the brain?
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investigations regarding structure-function relationships
episodic andsemantic memory and the interactivity between these two proposed memory systems issupported the nature of the amnesia resulting from the two differentpathologies. heart of the debate betweenamnesia due to midline diencephalic nuclei damage and amnesia due to medial temporal lobedamage |