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Perforant path — Infobox Brain Name = Perforant path Latin = GraySubject = GrayPage = Caption = Diagram of hippocampal regions. DG: Dentate gyrus. Perforant path not labeled, but would arise from the right. Caption2 = IsPartOf = Components = Artery = Vein =… … Wikipedia
Neural pathway — A neural pathway, neural tract, or neural face, connects one part of the nervous system with another and usually consists of bundles of elongated, myelin insulated neurons, known collectively as white matter. Neural pathways serve to connect… … Wikipedia
perforating fasciculus — perforant pathway … Medical dictionary
Long-term potentiation — (LTP) is a persistent increase in synaptic strength following high frequency stimulation of a chemical synapse. Studies of LTP are often carried out in slices of the hippocampus, an important organ for learning and memory. In such studies,… … Wikipedia
Dentate gyrus — Brain: Dentate gyrus Diagram of hippocampal regions. DG: Dentate gyrus … Wikipedia
Papez circuit — Described by James Papez in 1937, the Papez circuit of the brain is one of the major pathways of the limbic system and is chiefly involved in the cortical control of emotion. The Papez circuit plays a role in storing memory. Papez discovered the… … Wikipedia
EC-hippocampus system — The Entorhinal Cortex (EC) is a major part of the hippocampal formation of the human brain, and is reciprocally connected with the hippocampus. The hippocampal formation, which consists of the hippocampus, perirhinal cortex, the dentate gyrus,… … Wikipedia
layer — A sheet of one substance lying on another and distinguished from it by a difference in texture or color or by not being continuous with it. SEE ALSO: stratum, lamina. SYN: panniculus. ameloblastic l. the internal l. of the enamel organ. SYN: enam … Medical dictionary
area — 1. [TA] Any circumscribed surface or space. 2. All of the part supplied by a given artery or nerve. 3. A part of an organ having a special function, as the motor a. of the brain. SEE ALSO … Medical dictionary
Hippocampus anatomy — Human hippocampus. Niss … Wikipedia
