The entorhinal cortex (EC) is an area of the brain's allocortex, located in the medial temporal lobe, whose functions include being a widespread network...
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cortex is usually considered part of the limbic lobe. It receives inputs from the thalamus and the neocortex, and projects to the entorhinal cortex via...
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A grid cell is a type of neuron within the entorhinal cortex that fires at regular intervals as an animal navigates an open area, allowing it to understand...
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inertial compass, and conjecturally with grid cells in the neighboring entorhinal cortex.[citation needed] The earliest description of the ridge running along...
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Apical dendrite (section Entorhinal cortex)
Pyramidal cells are found in the prefrontal cortex, the hippocampus, the entorhinal cortex, the olfactory cortex, and other areas. Dendrite arbors formed...
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postrhinal cortex or parahippocampal cortex (homologous regions in rodents and primates, respectively) and ventrally and medially by entorhinal cortex. The...
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Spatial memory (section Entorhinal cortex)
change. Parietal cortex lesions are also known to produce temporally ungraded retrograde amnesia. The dorsalcaudal medial entorhinal cortex (dMEC) contains...
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Trisynaptic circuit (section Entorhinal cortex)
of the hippocampus occurs between the entorhinal cortex (EC) and the dentate gyrus (DG). The entorhinal cortex transmits its signals from the parahippocampal...
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Olfactory system (redirect from Olfactory cortex)
from the amygdaloid complex and adjacent olfactory structures to the entorhinal cortex and to the subiculum in the rat and cat". The Journal of Comparative...
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Physiology or Medicine, awarded for work concerning the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as several additional space-representing cell types in the...
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medial dorsal nucleus, insular cortex, entorhinal cortex, perirhinal cortex, hypothalamus, and amygdala. The orbitofrontal cortex is reciprocally connected...
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ventral tegmental area, midbrain raphe nuclei, habenular commissure, entorhinal cortex, and olfactory bulbs. The limbic system was originally defined by...
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The entorhinal cortex (EC) is a major part of the hippocampal formation of the brain, and is reciprocally connected with the hippocampus. The hippocampal...
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circuit, from which a major output pathway goes to layer V of the entorhinal cortex. Another significant output is to the subiculum. CA2 is a small region...
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then-wife May-Britt Moser discovered grid cells in the brain's medial entorhinal cortex. Grid cells are specialized neurons that provide the brain with a...
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the entorhinal cortex, and the periamygdaloid cortex. Some sources state that it also includes the prepyriform area. The primary olfactory cortex receives...
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inferior component of the hippocampal formation. It lies between the entorhinal cortex and the CA1 subfield of the hippocampus proper. The subicular complex...
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Sensory nervous system (section Sensory cortex)
nucleus, the piriform cortex, the medial amygdala, and the entorhinal cortex, all of which make up the primary olfactory cortex. In contrast to vision...
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Brodmann area 28 (redirect from Entorhinal area 28)
cerebral cortex defined on the basis of cytoarchitecture. It is located on the medial aspect of the temporal lobe and is part of the entorhinal cortex (Brodmann-1909)...
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the adjoining entorhinal cortex, via the axons of the so-called perforant path. These axons arise from layer 2 of the entorhinal cortex (EC), and terminate...
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hamsters were given lesions to either the hippocampus or the perirhinal-entorhinal cortex or received a sham treatment. Then the hamsters were allowed to mate...
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path or perforant pathway provides a connectional route from the entorhinal cortex to all fields of the hippocampal formation, including the dentate...
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regions of the hippocampal formation: the subiculum, presubiculum and entorhinal cortex. O'Keefe and Burgess had noted that the firing fields of place cells...
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the normal brain, dentate granule cells block seizure spread from entorhinal cortex to the hippocampus. A hypothesis is that granule cell dispersion may...
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mapping of the surrounding environment. Speed cells are found in the entorhinal cortex. With the discovery of grid cells in 2005 by Edvard Moser and May...
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in the substantia nigra of Parkinson's disease patients and in the entorhinal cortex of deceased Alzheimer's disease patients. In a 2008 White House ceremony...
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deficits in episodic memory. Alzheimer's disease tends to damage the entorhinal cortex and the hippocampus before other brain areas and this leads to episodic...
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in the hippocampus and the recently discovered grid cells in the entorhinal cortex. The idea of a cognitive map was first developed by Edward C. Tolman...
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including all parts of the hippocampus as well as the entorhinal cortex, perirhinal cortex, retrosplenial cortex, medial mamillary and supramammillary nuclei of...
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place cells are derivatives of grid cells, pyramidal cells in the entorhinal cortex. This theory suggests that the place fields of the place cells are...
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