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Investigations on Alterations of Hippocampal Circuit Function Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
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The hippocampus: The shock of the new
1Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology, Boston University, 64 Cummington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. hbe@bu.edu
Current Biology : CB
|July 8, 1999
Abstract:
Recent successes in functional brain imaging have suggested that the hippocampus is part of a novelty-detection network; but consideration of the available evidence and of the cognitive demands of novelty processing suggests that things are not so simple.
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