Temporal signs at the bedside
• Receptive (Wernicke’s) aphasia.
• Korsakoff’s syndrome – requires bilateral
destruction of the output of the hippocampus –
fornix and mammilary body.
• Temporal deficits are more often behavioral:
difficulty relating to others, sexual problems,
emotional problems.
• The damaged hippocampus often evokes
seizures that start with complex auras and
produce complex behavioral automatisms.