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)):
![](hippocps.gif)
- The Hippocampus according to Cajal:
![](CajalHip.gif)
Editor: Jean-Marc Fellous