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• Mammillary body — Brain: Mammillary body The hypophysis cerebri in position. Shown in sagittal section. (Label corpus mamillare at right.) …   Wikipedia

• mammillary body — noun One of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the human brain, at the ends of the anterior arches of the fornix. They form part of the limbic system and are often categorized as part of the hypothalamus. They consist of …   Wiktionary

• mammillary — 1. adjective /ˈmamɪləɹi/ a) Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form. On the other hand, no woman who had ever borne a child (even in her own childhood) could be accepted, no matter how free she was of mammilary blemishes. b) Pertaining to… …   Wiktionary

• memory abnormality — Introduction       any of the disorders that affect the ability to remember.       Disorders of memory must have been known to the ancients and are mentioned in several early medical texts, but it was not until the closing decades of the 19th… …   Universalium

• Hypothalamus — Brain: Hypothalamus Location of the human hypothalamus …   Wikipedia

• List of regions in the human brain — Anatomical regions of the brain are listed vertically, following hierarchies that are standard in neuroanatomy. Functional, connective and developmental regions are listed horizontally in parentheses where appropriate.Functional and connective… …   Wikipedia

• Isothalamus — The isothalamus is a division used by some researchers in describing the thalamus. [Percheron, G. (2003) Thalamus . In Paxinos, G. and May, J.(eds). The human nervous system . 2d Ed. Elsevier. Amsterdam. pp.592 675] .The isothalamus constitutes… …   Wikipedia

• Sleep apnea — Classification and external resources Obstructive sleep apnea ICD 10 G …   Wikipedia

• Papez circuit — Described by James Papez in 1937, the Papez circuit of the brain is one of the major pathways of the limbic system and is chiefly involved in the cortical control of emotion. The Papez circuit plays a role in storing memory. Papez discovered the… …   Wikipedia

• Memory — For other uses, see Memory (disambiguation). Neuropsychology Topics …   Wikipedia

• Korsakoff's syndrome — ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 2405 MeshID = D020915 Korsakoff s syndrome or Korsakov s syndrome (Korsakoff s psychosis, amnesic confabulatory syndrome), is a brain disorder caused by the lack of thiamine… …   Wikipedia