Focus on Hippocampus Biology: From Neurophysiology to Dysfunctions (2nd Edition)
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Neurobiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 50
Special Issue Editor
Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer’s disease; depression; anxiety; memory; learning; ageing; neuroinflammation; neurotrophic factors; synaptic plasticity; cell biology; irisin; prefrontal cortex; hippocampus; histology; electron microscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
The hippocampus is a fascinating brain region that is primarily devoted to spatial and episodic memory, learning, spatial navigation, and emotional behavior. Electrophysiological, biochemical, and molecular techniques have evidenced that these hippocampus-dependent functions are guaranteed by the complex and plastic neural circuits that connect the main hippocampal regions (i.e., the Cornu ammonis and dentate gyrus) with their surrounding cerebral areas and the adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus. However, hippocampal networks exhibit pronounced vulnerability to deleterious conditions, e.g., ischemia, chronic stress, neuroinflammation, aging, etc., which may damage the hippocampal cytoarchitecture and lead to various neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Therefore, this Special Issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences aims to advance investigations into the hippocampus and warmly encourages the submission of original research articles and exhaustive reviews that examine the physiopathology of the hippocampus from a molecular and cellular perspective.
Dr. Manuela Dicarlo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hippocampus
- dentate gyrus
- cornu ammonis (CA)
- spatial memory
- episodic memory
- learning
- spatial navigation
- synaptic plasticity
- neuroplasticity
- neurogenesis
- ischemia
- neuroinflammation
- chronic stress
- aging
- neurodegenerative diseases
- Alzheimer’s disease
- epilepsy
- depression
- anxiety
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