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A patient with Korsakoff syndrome shows profound anterograde amnesia. Damage to which paired structures, classically associated with thiamine deficiency, best accounts for this presentation?

Mammillary bodies and mediodorsal thalamic nuclei Caudate nucleus and putamen Substantia nigra and locus coeruleus Superior colliculi and pulvinar

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Mammillary bodies and mediodorsal thalamic nuclei

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