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Memory loss: do not forget the mammillary bodies

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  1. Department of Neuroradiology, Foundation IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, via Celoria 11, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Elena Prodi & Mario Savoiardo

  2. Department of Neuroradiology, Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Corso Bramante 88, 10126, Turin, Italy

    Elena Prodi

  3. Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foundation IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, via Celoria 11, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Ettore Salsano, Eleonora Catricalà & Davide Pareyson

  4. Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, via Olgettina 58, 20132, Milan, Italy

    Eleonora Catricalà

  5. Department of Neurology, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, via Lodovico Ariosto 13, 20145, Milan, Italy

    Stefano Messina

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Prodi, E., Salsano, E., Catricalà, E. et al. Memory loss: do not forget the mammillary bodies. Neurol Sci 35, 473–474 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-013-1560-0

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