The Human Dentate Gyrus Plays a Necessary Role in Discriminating New Memories

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 2629-2634

  Baker, Stevenson ^a   Vieweg, Paula ^b   Gao, Fuqiang ^d   Gilboa, Asaf ^e   Wolbers, Thomas ^b,c   Black, Sandra E ^d,e   Rosenbaum, R Shayna ^a,e  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

amnesia; CA3; case study; dentate gyrus; episodic memory; high resolution MRI; hippocampus; pattern completion; pattern separation

Indexed keywords

DENTATE GYRUS; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

DENTATE GYRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84992189583     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.081     Document Type: Article

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