As a result of a severe concussion from a car accident, you have a terrible problem with both retaining new information and recalling old information. The injury affected the
A) mammillary bodies.
B) basal ganglia.
C) inferior colliculi.
D) hippocampus.
E) superior colliculi.

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The hippocampus is the brain structure responsible for encoding and consolidating new information into long-term memory, as well as retrieving old information from long-term memory. A concussion that affects the hippocampus can result in difficulties with both retaining new information and recalling old information.

As a Result of a Severe Concussion from a Car