Schematic of Normal and Erroneous Place Coding (IMAGE)

RIKEN

Schematic of Normal and Erroneous Place Coding

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As control mice run along a track, the brain map of their environment is regularly updated through the neural circuitry in the hippocampus (left side of image). Without input from area CA3 in the hippocampus, the neural code that represents where the mutant mouse has come from (past coding) and is going (future coding) becomes disordered with only the current location remaining intact (right side of image).

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