A patient with cerebral trauma recovered considerably from the resulting anterograde but not retrograde amnesia. The persistence of retrograde amnesia is attributed to a lesion in the ventral tegmental region, which suggests a role for mesencephalic reticular activation in long-term retrieval.
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