Emotion: Region Level: Hippocampus

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• Hippocampus and Emotion
• Involved in Fear conditioning to context ().
• A Supramodal area endowed with integrative (complex) capabilities. Part of the Papez and LeDoux circuits.
• With the septum, it is at the basis of Gray's theory of anxiety (Gray 1982).
• Hippocampus: General
• Locate it on a MRI Slice.
• Locate it on a Rat Brain Slice (coronal section).
• View of the nuclei (Coronal section, adapted from (Williams et al, 1989)):
• The Hippocampus according to Cajal:

Editor: Jean-Marc Fellous

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