It includes truly natural specimens as well as some man-made specimens of fictitious animals such as a winged fish and a Hippocampus, half horse and half fish.
To a large degree, anterograde amnesia remains a mysterious ailment because the precise mechanism of storing memories is not yet well understood, although it is known that the regions involved are certain sites in the temporal cortex, especially in the hippocampus and nearby subcortical regions.
The renaming of the hippocampus as hippocampus major, and the calcar avis as hippocampus minor, has been attributed to Félix Vicq-d'Azyr systematising nomenclature of parts of the brain in 1786.
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While "hippocampus minor" was used interchangeably with "calcar avis" for much of the 19th century, for a few years after 1861 the former name was subjected to publicity and ridicule when the hippocampus minor became the centre of a dispute over human evolution between Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen, satirised as the Great Hippocampus Question.
Because of its close relationship with memory formation, damage to the hippocampus is closely related to Alzheimer disease.
Cut in cross section, the hippocampus is a C-shaped structure that resembles a ram's horns.
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Hippocampus anatomy describes the physical aspects and properties of the hippocampus, a neural structure in the medial temporal lobe of the brain that has a distinctive, curved shape that has been likened to the sea horse monster of Greek mythology and the ram's horns of Amun in Egyptian mythology.
The Montebello seahorse, Hippocampus montebelloensis, is known from Montebello Islands and Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia.
miR-134 is a brain-specific microRNA; in rats it is localised specifically in hippocampal neurons and may indirectly regulate synaptic development through antisense pairing with LIMK1 mRNA.
In 2012, organisers said among the prominent speakers were representatives of leading Indian publishing houses including Pratham Books, Hippocampus, Hachette India, Penguin India, Karadi Tales, Indiaplaza.com, Springer India, New Horizon Media, and Duckbill—covering various genres like children’s books, academic books and books in Indian languages.