Memory and basal ganglia: A review.

Memory is a relatively complicated cognitive process, so the neural system for memory is likely to be complex. In recent years, numerous studies of laboratory's animals with complex nervous systems, primates and rats, with memory deficits following brain damage, and humans with memory pathology, have improved our understanding of how the brain accomplishes learning and memory. The results of theses studies has been an increasing awareness that memory does not constitute a unitary function and suggesting that there is unlikely to be a single mechanism underlying all forms of learning and memory. So, major themes of recents works include the locus of memory storage and learning, the taxonomy of memory, and the concepts of forgetting and consolidation. This article provides a theoretical and practical framework of those subcortical structures thought to be involved in various memory processes.