Cerebral localization of higher functions: Memory-related anatomic structures

Abstract

The nature of memory and the search for its localization have been a subject of interest since Antiquity. After millennia of theoretical concepts, shifting from the heart to the brain, then from the ventricles to solid parts, the core memory-related structures finally began to be identified through modern scientifically-based methods at the diencephalic and cortical (hippocampal and neocortical) levels, mostly in the late Modern period, culminating in the current state of knowledge on the subject.LOCALIZAÇÃO CEREBRAL DE FUNÇÕES SUPERIORES: ESTRUTURAS ANATÔMICAS RELACIONADAS COM A MEMÓRIA. ACHADOS INICIAISRESUMO. A natureza da memória e a busca de sua localização tem sido objeto de interesse desde a Antiguidade. Após milênios de conceitos teóricos, mudando do coração para o cérebro e daí dos ventrículos para as partes sólidas, as estruturas centrais relacionadas com a memória finalmente começaram a ser identificadas através de métodos modernos com base científica, nos níveis diencefálico e cortical (hipocampal e neocortical), principalmente no período Moderno tardio, aproximando-se do estado atual do conhecimento sobre o tema. Palavras-chave: memória, estruturas anatômicas, diencéfalo, hipocampo, neocórtex.

rare case of Fahr's syndrome with dissociative amnesia

“…Previous research recommended the identification of structural calcinosis-causing amnesia in the anatomical structure of the memory processing area (Lucchelli & Spinnler, 2002). The calcification of the patient's brain did not involve the declarative memory processing area, such as the hippocampus, medial temporal lobe, or diencephalon (Engelhardt, 2020). There has been an established relationship between brain calcification and psychiatric symptoms.…”