Social memory engram in the hippocampus
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Social memory is one of the crucial components of episodic memories. Gregarious animals living in societies utilize social memory to exhibit the appropriate social behaviors such as aggression, avoidance, cooperative behavior, and even mating behavior. However, the neural mechanisms underlying social memory in the hippocampus remains mysterious. Here, I review some evidence from work done in rodents and primates on the brain region(s) and circuits encoding and/or retrieving social memory, as well as a storage for social memory (i.e. social memory engram neurons). Based on our recent findings that neural ensemble in ventral CA1 sub-region of the hippocampus possesses social memory engram, I would discuss the neural network for social information processing in order to encode social memory; and its evolutionary conservation between rodents and human.
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- Authors
- Okuyama, T.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Okuyama, Teruhiro
- ORCID
- Okuyama, Teruhiro
- Venue
- Neuroscience Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-04
- Volume
- 129
- Pages
- 17-23
- ISSN
- 0168-0102 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2620781914
- Cited by
- 95
- References
- 84
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 0.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuroscience Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Grant-in-Aid for a Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral SPD fellowship
- Junior faculty developing program
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Keywords
- social memory, hippocampus, ventral CA1, episodic memory, neuronal ensembles, social behavior, memory encoding and retrieval, neural circuits, evolutionary conservation, rodents, primates
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Hippocampus, Humans, Models, Neurological, Neural Pathways, Neurons, Social Behavior, Mice, Rats, Memory, Episodic
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