Abstract
The hippocampus (Latin for seahorse) is a structure in the medial temporal lobe, lining the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle. It has been considered part of the limbic system and plays an important role in explicit, episodic, declarative, contextual, or relational forms of rapid encoding, consolidation, and retrieval processes related to memory and emotion. Its unique highly ordered lamination, trisynaptic circuitry, and site for neurogenesis has contributed a wealth of information toward our current understanding of experience-dependent neuroplasticity at the systems, cellular, and molecular levels.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 566-570 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780123851574 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780123851581 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- CA1
- CA3
- Dentate gyrus
- Epilepsy
- Hippocampus
- Limbic system
- Medial temporal lobe
- Memory
- Neurogenesis
- Perforant path
- Schizophrenia
- Temporoammonic pathway