Anatomy and function
The hippocampus lies in the medial temporal lobe on each side. It is important for forming new episodic memories and spatial representations, working with regions including entorhinal cortex.
Where to look in the model
Bilateral medial-temporal hippocampal segmentations from fsaverage aseg, labels 17 and 53.
What this view does not establish
The whole hippocampal segmentation is shown, without CA subfields, dentate gyrus or parahippocampal gyrus subdivisions.
Open in 3DSources and precision
Cortex uses the FreeSurfer fsaverage5 template surface, with 10,242 vertices per hemisphere. Functional references use selected Destrieux sulcal and gyral parcels. Deep structures use fsaverage aseg segmentations. The Sereno2020 cerebellar research surface preserves folial geometry, but comes from another specimen; its assembled placement is schematic, without medical registration across templates. Arterial paths are manually drawn teaching schematics, not CTA/MRA reconstructions.
An educational schematic prototype for understanding spatial relationships. Item-by-item independent neuroanatomical review is pending. Functional highlights are not results of an individual examination and do not support individual diagnosis or treatment decisions.