Role in Epilepsy
The entorhinal cortex and its links to the hippocampus have been implicated in the generation of seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy, one of the most common forms of epilepsy. This, coupled with the rich innervation of the hippocampus, is the reason why the EC is so widely studied by neurophysiologists and neuropharmacologists.
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