Hippocampal Formation
Hierarchy level in atlas is 3: 2 superstructures include it.
abbreviation: HiAbbreviation
Hi
Species
Human
Description of part
No description provided. The nomenclature was adapted from the atlas, pages 281-328.
Part type
gray matter
Nomenclature
Mai-1997
Endorsement
The approach used by the collator Mihail Bota is not endorsed by the author of the nomenclature.
Collator argument
The hierarchy was constructed based on the information provided in the atlas (pages 281-287), and on the latest version of the hierarchical tree provided by the first author of the atlas. Some structures are captured in two or more hierarchical trees in the used sources. Details are provided for those structures.
Reference
Author:
Mai J.K., Assheuer J., Paxinos G.
Title of Book:
Atlas of the Human Brain
Year:
1997
Pages:
295-328
Edition:
First edition
Publisher:
Academic Press
Major subparts
| Name | Type |
| dentate gyrus | gray matter |
| hippocampus, retrocommissural part | gray matter |
| uncus hippocampi | gray matter |
| supracommissural hippocampus | gray matter |
| hippocampus, praecommissural part | gray matter |
