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8 Chapter 1 Introduction<br />

Figure 1.4: Coronal section of the hippocampal body after intravascular India<br />

ink injection. Bar= 1.5mm. 1–4, CA1–CA4 (fields of the cornu Ammonis).<br />

Sublayers of CA1: 5, alveus; 6, stratum pyramidale; 7, strata radiatum <strong>and</strong><br />

lacunosum; 8, stratum moleculare. Gyrus <strong>de</strong>ntatus: 9, stratum moleculare; 10,<br />

vestigial hippocampal sulcus; 11, subiculum; 12, margo <strong>de</strong>nticulatus; 13, superficial<br />

hippocampal sulcus; 14, fimbrio<strong>de</strong>ntate sulcus; 15, fimbria; 16, choroid<br />

plexuses; 17, tail of caudate nucleus; 18, temporal (inferior) horn of the lateral<br />

ventricle. Source: Duvernoy (2005).<br />

The polysynaptic (trisynaptic) circuit (An<strong>de</strong>rsen et al., 1971) <strong>de</strong>scribes the intrin-<br />

sic connection of the hippocampal formation. The axons from entorhinal cortex<br />

perforates to the molecular layer of the <strong>de</strong>ntate gyrus via the perforant pathway.<br />

An alternative alvear pathway reaches CA1 from entorhinal cortex via alveus. The<br />

<strong>de</strong>ndrites of the granule cells in the <strong>de</strong>ntate gyrus synapse with the afferent fibers,<br />

<strong>and</strong> their axons (mossy fibers) extend to CA3, where the pyramidal cells emit the<br />

Schaffer collaterals projecting to CA1. The circuit completes as the axons from<br />

CA1 reaches subiculum, which projects to the entorhinal cortex.<br />

The intrinsic circuitry is involved in the important role of of hippocampus in form-<br />

ing <strong>and</strong> consolidating long-term memory. The perforant pathway <strong>de</strong>monstrates<br />

the long-term potentiation (LTP), a form of neuroplastisity, which enhances the

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