cheesetouch
FA18 p for list of brain vulnerable to ischemia is P 496. Hippocampus, neocortex, cerebellum (purkinje cells), watershed areas.
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namesthegame22
Hippocampus is particularly vulnerable to hypoxia injury because of its high metabolic demands. This leads to cytotoxic edema, which manifests as neuronal enlargement in the affected region.
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submitted by โcassdawg(1781)
Lesion of the hippocampus results in anterograde amnesia (FA2020 p511, think 50 First Dates kind of forgetting).
Also, the hippocampus is one of the most vulnerable places to ischemic injury (pyramidal cells of the hippocampus, p512)