How to Use hippocampus in a Sentence

hippocampus

noun
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  • Next, the researchers would like to map the hippocampus of a mouse.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2024
  • So the hippocampus keeps track of where all of that stuff is.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 24 July 2019
  • Since the hippocampus takes in new info, brain fog can be the result.
    — Lisa Bain, Good Housekeeping, 29 July 2022
  • The structure of the hippocampus, prominently swirling, is featured in the center of the piece.
    — Liz Tormes, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The hippocampus is a small curl of brain, which nests beneath each temple.
    — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 27 June 2019
  • This portion of the brain contains the hippocampus and is the core of our memory center.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • This puree is spread through every part of the network and does some hippocampus-like things and some cortex-like things.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The hippocampus is a part of the brain that plays a crucial role in memory, learning and emotion.
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
  • Working out also causes new nerve cells to be born in the hippocampus—the battle zone for Alzheimer’s.
    — Erika Fry, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The amygdala and hippocampus, two clumps of gray matter that help govern our moods and emotions, shrink as well.
    — Rene Chun, Los Angeles Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • This study tracked cells in the hippocampus, a curved structure near the center of the brain in both species that’s vital for learning and memory.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2020
  • He's been studying the formation of memories in the hippocampus since the 1980s.
    — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Nir draws an analogy to two children on a swing set: the hippocampus on one swing and the neocortex on the other.
    — WIRED, 14 June 2023
  • Alzheimer’s is a voracious type of dementia that consumes the place cells of the hippocampus.
    — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • Video games have already been proven to increase grey matter in the hippocampus in young adults, after all.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 7 Dec. 2017
  • Brain scans showed that the man had shrinkage in the hippocampus, or memory center, a classic sign of Alzheimer’s.
    — Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
  • The hippocampus is crucial to many aspects of daily life.
    — M.r. O'Connor |, Twin Cities, 7 June 2019
  • Memory has frequently been studied in the cortex, which covers the top of the mammalian brain, and in the hippocampus at the base.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The hippocampus is near and tightly connected to the amygdala.
    — Arash Javanbakht, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with memory and navigation, among other things.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2021
  • O'Keefe found that a specific cell in the hippocampus throws off a signal to mark a specific place.
    — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
  • The hippocampus, a curved structure shaped like the seahorse it is named after, plays a role in learning and memory.
    — Darby Saxbe, Scientific American, 15 June 2018
  • For instance, one of the subtypes showed less damage in the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center.
    — Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Knowing how to do something does not require the hippocampus.
    — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Impairments to the processes of the hippocampus are a focal point in studying how PTSD affects the brain.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023
  • While other parts of my brain that deal with stress and threat have been getting a daily workout (the amygdala and the brain stem), my hippocampus has been… quiet.
    — Katy Kelleher, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2020
  • That day at the theater, on the other hand, will likely be coded by their hippocampus as a long-term memory.
    — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The images are from Duma’s office and show a closeup of Sage’s hippocampus (olive colored).
    — Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
  • In the hippocampus, a brain area that’s critical for memory and navigation, tests showed that the drug had restored normal glucose metabolism even though the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer’s were still present.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
  • That network also includes the hippocampus, a brain structure that is central to episodic memory formation and that can track moments as sequential events in time.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2021

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