Hippocampal area CA1 receives a diverse, well-characterized set of synaptic inputs during spatial navigation. Information arrives along projections from CA3 as well as directly from entorhinal cortex ...

The hippocampal CA3 region plays a key role in learning and memory. One of the most remarkable properties of the network is its ability to retrieve previously stored memories from incomplete or ...

You see a man at the grocery store. Is that the guy you went to college with or just someone who looks like him? One tiny spot in the brain has the answer. Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists ...

LA JOLLA--(May 3, 2018) By creating multiple types of neurons from stem cells and observing how they interact, Salk scientists have developed a new way to study the connections between brain cells in ...

Neurons in the left and right hippocampal CA1 area coordinate their activity thanks to input from CA3 cells ...