Word: medial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those boys was senior defensive end Mike Sands. He epitomizes "tough"--over his four years, he's strained his medial collateral ligament, separated his shoulder and broken a thumb. But he hasn't missed a game...
...Even a major injury, a sprained medial collateral ligament (MCL), sustained in last weekend's game against Penn won't keep Menick out of the game...
That sort of impairment has convinced scientists that the medial temporal lobe and hippocampus are key in transforming short-term memories into permanent ones, and also that permanent memories are stored somewhere else; otherwise, H.M. would have lost them...
...days wore on, his performance improved. Some part of his brain was retaining a memory of an earlier practice session, a so-called implicit--rather than explicit, or consciously remembered--memory. People who suffer from Alzheimer's disease exhibit the same sort of behavior--and it's the medial temporal lobe that is first affected by this devastating disease...
Sturdy is no stranger to injury. Last season, in Harvard's regular-season finale at Dartmouth, Sturdy suffered a sprained medial collateral ligament in her right knee and was unable to play in Harvard's historic 71-67 upset of No. 1-seed Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament...