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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 publication

DOI

10.1016/B978-0-12-385157-4.01151-9

Type

Chapter

Book title

Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences

Publication Date

01/01/2014

Pages

566 - 570