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Are the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus Functionally Distinct Structures?
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One literature treats the hippocampus as a purely cognitive structure involved in memory; another treats it as a regulator of emotion whose dysfunction leads to psychopathology. We review behavioral, anatomical, and gene expression studies that together support a functional segmentation into three hippocampal compartments: dorsal, intermediate, and ventral. The dorsal hippocampus, which corresponds to the posterior hippocampus in primates, performs primarily cognitive functions. The ventral (anterior in primates) relates to stress, emotion, and affect. Strikingly, gene expression in the dorsal hippocampus correlates with cortical regions involved in information processing, while genes expressed in the ventral hippocampus correlate with regions involved in emotion and stress (amygdala and hypothalamus).
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“The hippocampus is an important brain region involved in the consolidation and storage of long-term memories, cognition and emotional processing [54, 55].”
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“processing of sensory signals into memories in rodents involves dorsal hippocampus networks.9,10”
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“In contrast, ventral hippocampus is endowed with distinct afferent/efferent connections9,11 including robust pathways to amygdala,12,13 which may enhance the emotional salience of memories.9,14”
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“dorsal hippocampus primarily projects to cortical structures, whereas outflow from ventral hippocampus targets subcortical regions including amygdala and hypothalamus.9,11,13”
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“Dorsal hippocampus in the rodent, and primarily CA1, has emerged as the principal location of memory encoding and processing”
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“ventral hippocampus contributes to a network involved in salience and emotionality.9,10,25,117”
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“Studies have shown that different parts of the hippocampus serve these different functions, with the dorsal hippocampus supporting spatial navigation learning and memory, and the ventral hippocampus as important for anxiety and stress regulation (Fanselow and Dong, 2010; Kheirbek et al., 2013).”
From Adult neurogenesis, glia, and the extracellular matrix (2019) · cites this paper as Fanselow and Dong, 2010
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“a region that is considered analogous to the vHIP in rodents (22).”
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“The vHIP was analyzed separately as it is functionally distinct from the dHIP and has been implicated in anxiety regulation (22).”
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“We observed selective and robust YFP expression in CA2 PNs throughout dorsal hippocampus9-11”
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“with ventral/temporal portions more involved in anxiety and emotional processing, and dorsal/septal portions more involved in learning and memory [41].”
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“The dorsal and ventral hippocampus exhibit functional heterogeneity”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fanselow, M. S., & Dong, H.-W.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fanselow, Michael S.
- Dong, Hong-Wei
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-01
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7-19
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2822727
- OpenAlex
- W2051005796
- Cited by
- 3,358
- References
- 148
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- FWCI
- 10.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Locations
- Neuron (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH083180, MH62122)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Keywords
- hippocampus, dorsal hippocampus, ventral hippocampus, cognitive function, emotion regulation, stress, gene expression, amygdala, hypothalamus, memory, psychopathology
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Behavior, Animal, Cognition, Emotions, Gene Expression Regulation, Hippocampus, Humans, Memory, Nerve Net, Neural Pathways, Primates
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