Anterograde transneuronal degeneration in the limbic system
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 27 (12) , 1157
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.27.12.1157
Abstract
A 64-year-old man with diffuse atherosclerosis developed an organic mental syndrome, followed by hypothalamic symptoms. Autopsy showed an old large cystic infarct involving the left temporal lobe including the hippocampus, and atrophy of the ipsilateral fornix, mammillary body, hypothalamus, mammillothalamic tract, and the anterior thalamic nucleus. The clinical deterioration and pathologic findings may be explained by anterograde transneuronal degeneration within the limbic system following the infarction.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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