The medial cortex of reptiles does not appear to be involved in other tasks that are mediated by the hippocampus of mammals.
Neuronal death in the hippocampus is promoted by plasmin-catalyzed degradation of laminin.
There were several differences in the effects of stress at different stages of development on memory and the hippocampus in the studies reviewed above.
Decreasing stress should have a beneficial effect, especially at later stages of life when the hippocampus may be more vulnerable.
No obvious developmental abnormalities in the cortex and hippocampus at the light microscopic level are observed.
This proposal could reconcile the apparently discrepant findings that, in animals, the hippocampus participates in spatial memory, whereas in humans, it participates in declarative memory.
The problem of integrating current ideas about the function (not merely the operation) of hippocampus in animals and in humans is well presented.
The team working on replacing these functions of the hippocampus has copied its behavior, rather than waiting to understand its intricacies.
