The hippocampus (pl.: hippocampi; via Latin from Greek ἱππόκαμπος,'seahorse') is a major component of the brain of humans and other vertebrates. Humans and other mammals have two hippocampi, one in each side of the brain. The hippocampus is part of the … 展开

The term limbic system was introduced in 1952 by Paul MacLean to describe the set of structures that line the deep edge of the cortex (Latin limbus meaning border): These include the … 展开

The earliest description of the ridge running along the floor of the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle comes from The Venetian anatomist Julius Caesar Aranzi (1587), who likened … 展开

The hippocampus can be seen as a ridge of gray matter tissue, elevating from the floor of each lateral ventricle in the region of the inferior or temporal horn. This ridge can also be seen as an … 展开