The patient H.M. suffered severe memory disorders following a surgical operation that removed the ____.
A) corpus callosum
B) hippocampus
C) lateral interpositus nucleus and hypothalamus
D) prefrontal cortex and dorsomedial thalamus

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The hippocampus is a crucial structure for forming new declarative memories (memories that can be consciously recalled, such as facts or events). The removal of H.M.'s hippocampus caused him to suffer from severe anterograde amnesia, an inability to form new declarative memories.

The Patient H