EC-hippocampus System
The Entorhinal Cortex (EC) is a major part of the hippocampal formation of the human brain, and is reciprocally connected with the hippocampus.
The hippocampal formation, which consists of the hippocampus, perirhinal cortex, the dentate gyrus, the subicular areas and EC forms one of the most important parts of limbic system. It is an infolding of the parahippocampal gyrus into the inferior (temporal) horn of the lateral ventricle.
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