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The Stark Amendment was put in place to protect patients against:

Optogenetics provides strong support for the idea that the contextual fear memory trace depends on the hippocampus for the life of the memory.

Which specialty has the highest number of wrong site or incorrect surgeries?

Damage to the hippocampus prior to contextual fear conditioning produces severe amnesia for contextual fear memory.

What are the two critical assumptions in the standard model of systems consolidation?

Damage to the hippocampus after contextual fear conditioning produces severe amnesia for contextual fear memory.

What is the effect of damaging the hippocampus prior to contextual fear conditioning.

In their review of the human amnesia literature, Nadel and Moscovitch concluded that if the hippocampal system is severely damaged, there may be sparing of either remote or recent episodic memories.

According to the standard model of systems consolidation, damage to the hippocampus would not cause retrograde amnesia if it occurred weeks after the memory was consolidated.

The animal research literature provides strong support for the standard model of systems consolidation.