The entorhinal cortex (EC) is an area of the brain's allocortex, located in the medial temporal lobe, whose functions include being a widespread network...
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cortex is usually considered part of the limbic lobe. It receives inputs from the thalamus and the neocortex, and projects to the entorhinal cortex via...
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Spatial memory (section Entorhinal cortex)
change. Parietal cortex lesions are also known to produce temporally ungraded retrograde amnesia. The dorsalcaudal medial entorhinal cortex (dMEC) contains...
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inertial compass, and conjecturally with grid cells in the neighboring entorhinal cortex. The earliest description of the ridge running along the floor of...
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ventral tegmental area, midbrain raphe nuclei, habenular commissure, entorhinal cortex, and olfactory bulbs. The limbic lobe was originally defined by Paul...
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Apical dendrite (section Entorhinal cortex)
Pyramidal cells are found in the prefrontal cortex, the hippocampus, the entorhinal cortex, the olfactory cortex, and other areas. Dendrite arbors formed...
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Trisynaptic circuit (section Entorhinal cortex)
of the hippocampus occurs between the entorhinal cortex (EC) and the dentate gyrus (DG). The entorhinal cortex transmits its signals from the parahippocampal...
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postrhinal cortex or parahippocampal cortex (homologous regions in rodents and primates, respectively) and ventrally and medially by entorhinal cortex. The...
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hamsters were given lesions to either the hippocampus or the perirhinal-entorhinal cortex or received a sham treatment. Then the hamsters were allowed to mate...
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The entorhinal cortex (EC) is a major part of the hippocampal formation of the brain, and is reciprocally connected with the hippocampus. The hippocampal...
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circuit, from which a significant output pathway goes to layer V of the entorhinal cortex. The main output of CA1 is to the subiculum. CA2 is a small region...
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A grid cell is a type of neuron within the entorhinal cortex that fires at regular intervals as an animal navigates an open area, allowing it to understand...
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the adjoining entorhinal cortex, via the axons of the so-called perforant path. These axons arise from layer 2 of the entorhinal cortex (EC), and terminate...
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complex, or subicular cortex, is the most inferior component of the hippocampal formation. It lies between the entorhinal cortex and the CA1 hippocampal...
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in the substantia nigra of Parkinson's disease patients and in the entorhinal cortex of deceased Alzheimer's disease patients. In a 2008 White House ceremony...
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Brodmann area 28 (redirect from Entorhinal area 28)
cerebral cortex defined on the basis of cytoarchitecture. It is located on the medial aspect of the temporal lobe and is part of the entorhinal cortex In humans...
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then-wife May-Britt Moser discovered grid cells in the brain's medial entorhinal cortex. Grid cells are specialized neurons that provide the brain with a...
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medial dorsal nucleus, insular cortex, entorhinal cortex, perirhinal cortex, hypothalamus, and amygdala. The orbitofrontal cortex is reciprocally connected...
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place cells are derivatives of grid cells, pyramidal cells in the entorhinal cortex. This theory suggests that the place fields of the place cells are...
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Physiology or Medicine, awarded for work concerning the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as several additional space-representing cell types in the...
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connections to medial temporal lobe memory structures, such as the entorhinal cortex and the parahippocampal gyrus, the latter being involved in associative...
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Olfactory system (redirect from Olfactory cortex)
from the amygdaloid complex and adjacent olfactory structures to the entorhinal cortex and to the subiculum in the rat and cat". The Journal of Comparative...
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in the hippocampus and the recently discovered grid cells in the entorhinal cortex. The idea of a cognitive map was first developed by Edward C. Tolman...
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including all parts of the hippocampus as well as the entorhinal cortex, perirhinal cortex, retrosplenial cortex, medial mamillary and supramammillary nuclei of...
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consists of excitatory cells (mostly stellate cells) in layer II of the entorhinal cortex, projecting to the granule cell layer of the dentate gyrus via the...
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layer III of the entorhinal cortex. Overall, this paper highlighted the fundamental nature of dorsoventral gradients in entorhinal cortex circuits. From...
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mapping of the surrounding environment. Speed cells are found in the entorhinal cortex. With the discovery of grid cells in 2005 by Edvard Moser and May...
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Sensory nervous system (section Sensory cortex)
nucleus, the piriform cortex, the medial amygdala, and the entorhinal cortex, all of which make up the primary olfactory cortex. In contrast to vision...
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the normal brain, dentate granule cells block seizure spread from entorhinal cortex to the hippocampus. A hypothesis is that granule cell dispersion may...
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regions of the hippocampal formation: the subiculum, presubiculum and entorhinal cortex. O'Keefe and Burgess had noted that the firing fields of place cells...
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