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“Is amnesia a disconnection syndrome?” This question, raised by Warrington and Weiskrantz in 1982 [23], will be reexamined in the context of circumscirbed vascular thalamic lesions followed by memory dysfunction. It is through the knowledge of vascularization patterns and angioarchitectonic features of the human thalamus that we hope to further the discussion on vascular thalamic amnesia. Over the last decade several cases of vascular thalamic lesions have been reported where by CCT evidence small hypodense lesions, representing selective thalamic infarctions, in the “polar” region of the thalamus have been held responsible for severe memory dysfunction [2, 5, 8, 9, 11, 17, 18, 24].
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von Cramon, D., Hebel, N., Schuri, U. (1986). Is Vascular Thalamic Amnesia a Disconnection Syndrome?. In: Poeck, K., Freund, HJ., Gänshirt, H. (eds) Neurology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70007-1_25
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