Christopher suffered a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident. Since the accident, he has great difficulty in forming new memories but remembers his childhood well, which suggests that his ____ was damaged

a. hippocampus
b. hypothalamus
c. basal ganglia
d. amygdala


ANSWER:
a

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