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Bilateral hippocampal lesion and a selective impairment of the ability for mental time travel
Abstract
Mental time travel allows individuals to mentally project themselves backwards and forwards in subjective time. This case report describes a young woman suddenly rendered amnesic as a result of bilateral hippocampal damage following an epileptic seizure and brain anoxia. Her neuropsychological profile was characterized by a high-average general level of cognitive functioning, selective deficit in episodic memory of past events and a significant difficulty to envisage her personal future. This case provides clinical support for the concept of mental time travel with its retrospective and prospective components and for the hippocampus being its critical neural substrate.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Andelman, F., Hoofien, D., Goldberg, I., Aizenstein, O., & Neufeld, M. Y.
- Affiliations
- Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (IL)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Andelman, Fani
- Venue
- Neurocase
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-09-27
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 426-435
- ISSN
- 1355-4794 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-3656
- OpenAlex
- W2095240352
- Cited by
- 120
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 6.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neurocase (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Keywords
- mental time travel, hippocampus, bilateral hippocampal lesions, episodic memory, prospective memory, retrospective memory, amnesia, epileptic seizures, brain anoxia, neural correlates
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Amnesia, Cognition, Female, Forecasting, Hippocampus, Humans, Imagination, Neuropsychological Tests, Mental Recall, Time Perception
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