''Hippocampus'' is a monthly

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established in 1991. It is published by

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and covers the

neurobiology Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, ...

of the

hippocampal formation The hippocampal formation is a compound structure in the medial temporal lobe of the brain. It forms a c-shaped bulge on the floor of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle. Typically, the hippocampal formation is said to included the dent ...

and related structures. The founding

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were David Amaral and Menno Witter, who were succeeded in 1998 by Howard Eichenbaum (

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), who remained in this position until he died in 2017.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 3.899.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hippocampus Academic journals established in 1991 Neuroscience journals Monthly journals English-language journals Limbic system Wiley (publisher) academic journals