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. 2019 May 6;29(11):1049–1062. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23097

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Subregions of the human hippocampus. (a) Top panel: a section of postmortem human hippocampus stained with cresyl violet to visualise cell bodies and overlaid with hippocampal subregion masks. Bottom panel: a T2‐weighted structural MRI scan of the human hippocampus overlaid with hippocampal subregion masks. (b) Left panel: a 3D model of hippocampal subregion masks with representative examples of demarcation points for anterior, anterior body, posterior body and tail portions of the subfields. Right panel: schematic representation of the subfields present in each portion of the hippocampus [Color figure can be viewed at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com]