Learning and memory: Don't forget the CA2

Learning and memory: Don't forget the CA2

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience 15, 204 (2014). doi:10.1038/nrn3719

Author: Sian Lewis

The CA2 region of the hippocampus is a disynaptic gateway between the entorhinal cortex and CA1. This study showed that in adult mice, selective inactivation of CA2 pyramidal cell output resulted in the loss of memory of a previously encountered conspecific but had no effect

Original Article: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nrn/rss/current/~3/M_n_b4iNhLI/nrn3719

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