The Dentate Gyrus: Fundamental Neuroanatomical Organization (dentate Gyrus for Dummies)

Overview

Journal Prog Brain Res

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Neurology

Date 2007 Sep 4

PMID 17765709

Citations 388

Authors

David G Amaral

Helen E Scharfman

Pierre Lavenex

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Abstract

The dentate gyrus is a simple cortical region that is an integral portion of the larger functional brain system called the hippocampal formation. In this review, the fundamental neuroanatomical organization of the dentate gyrus is described, including principal cell types and their connectivity, and a summary of the major extrinsic inputs of the dentate gyrus is provided. Together, this information provides essential information that can serve as an introduction to the dentate gyrus--a "dentate gyrus for dummies."

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