Structure, function, and plasticity of hippocampal dentate gyrus microcircuits

• Main Author: Peter Jonas (auth)
• Other Authors: John Lisman (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Dentate Gyrus; adult neurogenesis; mossy fibers; mossy cells; granule cells; mossy fiber synapses; Hippocampus
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The hippocampus mediates several higher brain functions, such as learning, memory, and spatial coding. The input region of the hippocampus, the dentate gyrus, plays a critical role in these processes. Several lines of evidence suggest that the dentate gyrus acts as a preprocessor of incoming informa...