Up until now, scientists believed that a particular form of synaptic plasticity in the brain's hippocampus was responsible for learning spatial relations.
What does HC stand for?
HC stands for Hippocampus
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Genetic variants of hippocampus study The gene variants identified in the first study do not cause Alzheimer's, but they may rob the hippocampus of a kind of "reserve" against the disease, which is known to cause cell destruction and dramatic shrinkage of this key brain site.
In otherwise healthy adults the hippocampus shrinks by about 1 to 2 percent a year, and the decrease is even more rapid among people with dementia.
The density of nerve cells and of silver-gold impregnated fibres were evaluated in the hippocampus and in the cerebellar cortex in adult (12-month-old) and old (24-month-old) Sprague-Dawley rats.
Studies have emphasized the role of the hippocampus in learning and different kinds of memory.
Clearing old memories from the hippocampus makes way for new learning, researchers from Japan suggest in the Nov.
However, in patients with severe depression, both the size of the hippocampus and its neurogenic ability appear to be reduced, explained Dr.