If damage to the hippocampus, what is the result?

• A. Enhanced Memory
• B. Amnesia (Memory Loss)
• C. Sleep Disturbances
• D. Color Blindness

Answer: (B)

The hippocampus is crucial for forming new memories and consolidating them into long-term storage, as well as for spatial memory. When it’s damaged, the ability to create new memories after the injury is impaired, a pattern known as amnesia. Older memories may be affected to some degree, but the hallmark is memory loss rather than improvements. Other options don’t fit because color vision involves visual processing areas, and sleep disturbances involve regions that regulate sleep—neither is the primary outcome of isolated hippocampal damage.