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The Septo-Hippocampal System: Significance of the Subiculum

1976; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-1-4684-3084-4_5

0099-6246

Robert B. Chronister, Robert W. Sikes, Lowell E. White,

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The hippocampal formation has been a favorite area of anatomic investigation for a number of years. Excellent descriptions of its morphology can easily be found in the classical anatomical literature. For example, Meynert (19,20,21) divided the area into a fascia dentata, a cornu ammonis (synonomous with ammonshorn or hippocampus proper), and a subiculum or sigmoid process (this latter area included more than what is now referred to as subiculum). As the concept of a hippocampal lobule or hippocampal gyrus became elaborated, considerable confusion remained in the definition of subiculum. Some statements can be found that appear to equate subiculum with the whole so-called hippocampal gyrus. (This confusion can still be found in a modern medical dictionary (11). However, close examination of this literature reveals that the subiculum as used by many authors, referred to the areas now called subiculum, presubiculum and parasubiculum.