Patient HM

question 51

Multiple Choice

Patient H.M.was treated for severe epilepsy by bilateral removal of his

• A) temporal lobes.
• B) occipital lobes.
• C) frontal lobes.
• D) hypothalamus.
• E) thalamic nuclei.

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Definitions:

Parahippocampal Region

An area of the brain surrounding the hippocampus, involved in memory encoding and retrieval, as well as spatial memory and navigation.

Frontal Lobe Damage

Injury to the front part of the brain, which can affect mood, behavior, judgment, and motor function.

Medial Temporal Lobe

A region of the brain critically involved in the formation of new memories and associated with various aspects of recognition memory and spatial navigation.

Parietal Lobe

One of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain, responsible for processing sensory information regarding the location of parts of the body, as well as interpreting visual information and processing language and mathematics.