ABSTRACT
JBR is a 41-year-old man who was diagnosed as having herpes simplex encephalitis at the age of 23. He was one of the four patients described by Warrington and Shallice (1984) and has subsequently been included in other studies of semantic memory (Funnell & Sheridan, 1992; Funnell & de Mornay Davies, 1996). An MRI scan in February 1996 revealed that the anterior halves of the temporal lobes were hypointense and this involved the medial and lateral temporal cortex to an equal degree. The entire right hippocampus was destroyed, while the posterior part of the left hippocampus was preserved. The amygdala was totally destroyed.
