hippocampus

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The brain's navigation mechanism resides in an area know as the hippocampus, which is responsible for learning and memory and famously shown to be different in London taxi drivers in a Wellcome Trust-funded study carried out by Professor Eleanor Maguire at UCL (University College London).

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  1. noun A ridge in the floor of each lateral ventricle of the brain that consists mainly of gray matter and has a central role in memory processes.

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  • In a new study, Fen Xia and colleagues, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, present results, generated in irradiated mice, that lithium protects nerves in the region of the brain known as the hippocampus by promoting DNA repair. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Something about the game triggers a response in the hippocampus, which is the part of the brain responsible for generating and "fixing" memory. —  BrianKaneOnline
  • Both areas are involved in thinking and memory skills, and loss of volume in the hippocampus is a risk factor for dementia. —  canada.com Top Stories
  • The hippocampus, which is a part of the brain responsible for learning motors skills, is also active during the REM phase of sleep. —  The Real Truth
  • Differences in the region of the brain involved in memory, known as the hippocampus, have previously been shown in middle-aged and elderly healthy carriers of APOE4. —  The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning
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  1. Late Latin, a sea horse with a horse's forelegs and a dolphin's tail (from its shape in cross section), from Greek hippokampos : hippos, horse; see ekwo- in Indo-European roots + kampos, sea monster.

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  1. Latin, a sea-horse, from Greek ἱππόκαμπος, a mythical sea-monster, with horse's body and fish's tail, also in zoology the sea-horse, from ἵππος, horse, + κάμπος, a sea-monster.
 

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