Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. CONTENIDO: The hippocampal formation -- Historical perspective: proposed functions, biological characteristics, and neurobiological models of the hippocampus -- Hippocampal neuroanatomy -- Morphological development of the hippocampus -- Structural and functional properties of hippocampal neurons -- Synaptic function -- Molecular mechanisms of synaptic function in the hippocampus: neurotransmiter exocytosis and glutamatergic, GABAergic, and cholinergic transmission -- Local circuits -- Structural plasticity -- Synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus -- Hippocampal neurophysiology in the behaving animal -- Functional role of the human hippocampus -- Theories of hippocampal function -- Computational models of the spatial and mnemonic functions of the hippocampus -- Stress and the hippocampus -- Hippocampus and human disease.
