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The missing link: a failure of fronto-hippocampal integration in schizophrenia

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Schizophrenics perform poorly on memory tasks. A new study suggests that this may be due to abnormal interactions between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.

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Figure 1: Connections between the hippocampal formation (bottom) and the prefrontal cortex (top) in the rhesus monkey.

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