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    The hippocampus is located in the allocortex, with neural projections into the neocortex, in humans as well as other primates. The hippocampus, as the...
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    pes hippocampi minor. The renaming of the hippocampus as hippocampus major, and the calcar avis as hippocampus minor, has been attributed to Félix Vicq-d'Azyr...
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    Charles G. (1993). "Hippocampus minor and man's place in nature: a case study in the social construction of neuroanatomy". Hippocampus. 3 (4): 407–413. doi:10...
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  • calcar avis, but in 1786 this was renamed the hippocampus minor, with the hippocampus being called the hippocampus major. Richard Owen presented several papers...
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    Fornix (neuroanatomy) (category Hippocampus (brain))
    acts as the major output tract of the hippocampus. The fornix also carries some afferent fibers to the hippocampus from structures in the diencephalon and...
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  • Neuroimaging studies have reported a consistently smaller volume of the hippocampus in DID patients, supporting the trauma model. Symptoms of dissociative...
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  • controversial and debated. The right hippocampus is clearly necessary for familiarity in spatial tasks, whereas the left hippocampus is necessary for familiarity-based...
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  • adulthood in the hippocampus of many mammals, from rodents to some primates, although its existence in adult humans is debated. The hippocampus plays a crucial...
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    dorsal and ventral hippocampus. Lesions to the ventral hippocampus have no effect on spatial memory, while the dorsal hippocampus is required for retrieval...
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    Dentate gyrus (category Hippocampus (brain))
    surgery, in an American male, to remove most of the hippocampus. It remains unclear how the hippocampus enables new memory formation, but one process, called...
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    charged ones. The hippocampus is important for explicit memory. The hippocampus is also important for memory consolidation. The hippocampus receives input...
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  • stored in the hippocampus. Some researchers believe that episodic memories always rely on the hippocampus. Others believe the hippocampus only stores episodic...
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    This theory has generated considerable debate and further experiment. It has been noted that "[t]he hippocampus underpins our ability to navigate, to form...
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  • as heavily on the hippocampus for long-term memory storage. Therefore, if an individual experiences RA that damages the hippocampus, they will lose more...
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    humans and apes. In one famous incident, which became known as the Great Hippocampus Question, Huxley showed that Owen was mistaken in claiming that the brains...
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    total brain volume in the superior temporal cortex, Broca's area, the hippocampus and the caudate. The midsagittal and fiber numbers in the anterior commissure...
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    Place cell (category Hippocampus (brain))
    A place cell is a kind of pyramidal neuron in the hippocampus that becomes active when an animal enters a particular place in its environment, which is...
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  • a much larger scale in the brain, rendering hippocampus-dependent memories independent of the hippocampus over a period of weeks to years. Recently, a...
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  • of the brain such as reduced cortical and subcortical volumes in the hippocampus and amygdala. Reduced volume of the amygdala may account for the lessened...
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    Dundreary in Section D, on Friday Last, On the Great Hippocampus Question", a parody of debates about human and ape anatomical features (and their implications...
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  • computational theories of the cerebellum (in 1969), neocortex (in 1970), and hippocampus (in 1971). Each of those papers presented important new ideas that continue...
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    ventricle and hippocampus minor) were indeed present in apes. The debate was widely publicised, and parodied as the Great Hippocampus Question. It was...
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  • the hippocampus, has been observed to primarily develop in the postnatal stages of development. It is theorized that this part of the hippocampus plays...
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    and easier to recall, both of which facilitate better learning. The hippocampus is important in memory formation and recall and therefore in determining...
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    (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2006); reprinted in Donald Sidney-Fryer, Random Notes, Random Lines: Essays and Miscellanea (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2021)...
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  • for superior autobiographical memory. For autobiographical memory, the hippocampus, located in the medial temporal lobe, is involved in the encoding of...
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  • connections between the PFC, amygdala, and hippocampus which can in turn affect how memory are stored by the hippocampus. A person's amygdala does not fully...
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    and cerebellum. As CTE progresses, there may be marked atrophy of the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, and amygdala. On a microscopic scale, a pathognomonic...
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  • role the hippocampus plays in memory, it has been the focus of various studies involving post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment. The hippocampus is one...
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    the hippocampus minor) were indeed present in apes. Thus was exposed one of Owen's greatest blunders, revealing Huxley as not only dangerous in debate, but...
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