Mateo is 70 years old and had a stroke last year. He is now unable to remember how to get to and return from his new doctors office using a specific route. What brain structure was potentially damaged by Mateo's stroke?
a. his amygdala
b. his hypothalamus
c. his hippocampus
d. his cerebellum
e. his medulla
c. his hippocampus
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