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The multi-laned hippocampus

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Few brain circuits have generated more research than the mammalian hippocampus, a region of discrete subfields that connect serially to form a 'trisynaptic loop'. A new paper implies that the loop may be made up of parallel subpathways.

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Figure 1: Parallel pathways through the hippocampus.

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  1. Edvard I. Moser is at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.,

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Moser, E. The multi-laned hippocampus. Nat Neurosci 14, 407–408 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2783

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