Dr Burgess added: «Amongst our allied health professions, what we did know about from decades of research and hundreds of case studies, is that bilateral damage to the hippocampal and / or
diencephalon structures causes profound amnesia, and in the absence of apparent structural damage to these structures, it left an explanation widely open to speculation.
These cells normally don't mingle with neurons from the
diencephalon, which gives rise to less advanced
structures such as the hypothalamus and optic nerves.