The CA3 region of the hippocampus: How is it? What is it for? How does it do it?

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Cherubini, Enrico ^a,b   Miles, Richard ^c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

Associative network; A peptide; CA3 subfield; Episodic memory; Hippocampus; Mossy fibers; Spatial representation; Theta rhythm

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DENTATE GYRUS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HUMAN; MEMORY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONAL MIGRATION DISORDER; NONHUMAN; SEIZURE;

EID: 84923219848     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00019     Document Type: Editorial

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