Hippocampus and Memories

In this video, Dr Kushner explores the hippocampus, our brain's built-in time machine. Found deep within the temporal lobe, the hippocampus plays a critical role in forming new (declarative) memories, transferring short-term memories to long-term memories (i.e., memory consolidation), and spatial navigation.
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➡️Timestamps:
00:00 Hippocampus
01:09 Where is the Hippocampus Located?
02:28 What is the Limbic System?
03:34 What is the Difference Between Anterograde Amnesia and Retrograde Amnesia?
05:58 How Does the Hippocampus Help Form New Memories?
10:47 How Does the Hippocampus Help Consolidate Memories?
14:31 How Does the Hippocampus Support Spatial Navigation (Spatial Memory)?
15:09 What is a Cognitive Map?
15:24 What are Place Cells?
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[@PsychExplained]

Check your understanding: Retrograde amnesia refers to A. past memories interfering with new memories B. the inability to create new episodic memories C. difficulty speaking clearly D. the inability to recall past episodic memories

[@Seism85]

Inability to recall past episodic memories. 'Retro' is the easy way to remember that.

[@em3poetry399]

The answer is D

[@BAT_24]

D.

[@jaytomson7052]

It be bee?

[@bleh_stfu19]

Which part of the brain damage cause retrograde amnesia?

[@barryfield2271]

My dad suffered from Alzheimer's Disease. The neuron loss of his hippocampus therefore made his memories disappear slowly over time. The loss of his memories was the hardest for me to understand and cope with. Thanks for explaining this clearly.

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Barry, thank you for sharing. I can't imagine watching a loved one experience this type of disease. God bless.

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Thank you so much! I appreciate the different colors and diagrams you used.

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Wow. What an incredible Professional. Thank you for breaking things down so well.

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Amazing explanation! I like reading science-fiction books about the brain and such videos helps me a lot to consolidate my knowledge. Thanks!

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[@DihelsonMendonca]

Some scientists say that although a person with Alzheimer's disease can't retrieve most memories, they are there. The memories are not destroyed, they can't be accessed. That's the problem.

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I love the temporal lobe and tonotropic design also the fact that it works just like zener diode system

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Thanksgiving you information of brain hippocampus

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[@paullemay9573]

Well done. Lots of good detail. Missing bifurcation of hiippocampi tracts into emotional and spatial domains of processing to provide overall context for experience and memory. Otherwise, as I say well done overall.

[@jaytomson7052]

The decoding and assembly function does take "time", however, and how much time that it takes, no one truly knows. We could all be long dead... just remembering ourselves alive, like viewing ancient light in the night, through a telescope.

[@l3tsgame253]

Great Video but theres a little mistake in regards to the neurons. The end of the first neuron in your image heads towards the end of the second neuron but the synaptic activity ist between the End branch and the dendrites of the second neuron.

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L3tsGame you are SO right! Great catch. Let's just imagine the postsynaptic neuron is turned around :)

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Hi, thank you so much for your work! One thing remained unclear to me - what the role of hyppocampus in memory consoldation is. Could you please correct me, if I'm wrong? Each time smn recalls the memory of a date the LTP happens, to put it simple, between neurons in temporal lobe and neurons of hyppocampus , thus strengthening the connection between them. And that is how long term memory is formed. And hyppocampus doesnt' play role in LTM itself - storage or retrieving - but rather in formation of it. So when the memories are retrived the neural network doesn't include neurons of hyppocampus, but only neurons of neocortex, does it? Also if sensory information goes from neocortex to hyppocampus - one way, then the connection that strenghtens i is between axons from neocortex and cell bodies of hyppocampal neurons?

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Can you explain what diffrents from STM and LTM. Thanksyou

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Very useful

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[@debrapearse5116]

What part of the brain is responsible to retaining information. Example is reading a book, news paper, listening and understanding information. Thank you

[@PsychExplained]

There is no ONE structure responsible for "retaining" information. The brain is a complex organ with multiple regions involved in different aspects of information processing and memory. However, the primary structures responsible for retaining information and processing new knowledge include the hippocampus and various regions of the cerebral cortex.

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[@serendipity9944]

Very interesting! I often wonder about this. I had an accident when I was 7 and lost all long and short term memory. The thing that bothers me is this, apparently when I got home from the hospital I jumped back on a bike and went to a friends house whom I remembered, not that I remember this incident. Did something trigger these memories? Or where they just floating around before fully being erased? I also believe that for quite a few years after my accident I never stored any memory besides traumatic ones and they are vague. It’s really odd to not be able to look back and recall childhood memories, there’s nothing. However, once my brain healed my memory was sharp…it probably had a reset…but so many will never comprehend what it was like growing up and having absolute blankness and to top it off, for quite a few years I wasn’t even storing daily events into my long term memory.

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How did you get your to heal? 🙏♥️

[@serendipity9944]

@@traciemartin2509 I would assume time. My accident occurred in the 80s and there was no therapy sessions after I left hospital which I believe there should be to see how one is progressing.

[@Samlefe_]

I would assume neuro plasticity had a lot to do with your new found ability to heal :) you are lucky you had the accident at the age you did. Older than 25 and neuro plasticity is reduced

[@FiroYang]

言出法随. It sounds when you are saying or watching something, a synapse is being created or connected.

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I agree with this :)

[@pototo1]

Cell phones apparently damage the ability to convert short term to long term memory, hence the inability seen in many young people overexposed to these devices. Would be interesting to get your comment on this...

[@marianthisotiraki8694]

Many thanks! Is it your great neuron networks that make you teaching so efficiently?! (Thanks that I'm a greek, so easy to explain words like "thalamus, hippocampus, semantic, episodic, amygdala" etc..!) 16:10: You talk about amygdala; is that true? Thanks!

[@PsychExplained]

Thank you for your kind words! 🙏🏻 That was my mistake, I meant to say “hippocampus” when discussing place cells

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[@traciemartin2509]

My sin struggles from contamination OCD since last September 1 literally overnight after having the evil vi rus early Aug. His hippocampus right side is smaller. Do you think this is inflammation or permanent or? He always feels like something is poking him. Skin sensation. Nerve endings maybe? I'm just worried about him having permanent damage. He is only 21 😢. This issue is do heartbreaking seeing him in so much distress and he's exhausted.

[@rafaelguijarro7105]

DMT treatment activates the subgranular neurogenic niche regulating the proliferation of neural stem cells, the migration of neuroblasts, and promoting the generation of new neurons in the hippocampus, therefore enhancing adult neurogenesis and improving spatial learning and memory tasks.

[@woodydeyuwang4714]

Great video! Thanks for your explanation. I just got a quick question: so in your another video says sensory information (except for olfactory) goes to thalamus first, and then goes to different cortexes, I am wondering which step hippocampus gets involved? Is it A or B? A. sensory info - thalamus (integrate info together) - hippocampus (close to thalamus, integrate info as well? ) - locate memory in different locations; or B. sensory info - thalamus - cortexes - hippocampus (integrate memories from different locations) - transfer new memory to somewhere else? Thanks!

[@PsychExplained]

Great question! I would argue A: Sensory info - Thalamus - Hippocampus/Amygdala - Cortex

[@sunilsingh-fn4er]

What is solution for mildly reduced right hippocampus due to alcohol addiction..i m facing memory loss issue due to this addiction...it is reversible or not.

[@PsychExplained]

I would recommend to talk to your doctor. Best of luck in your recovery ❤️‍🩹

[@matthewwong1429]

Are the place cells in amygdala or hippocampus ?

[@PsychExplained]

Hippocampus! I mistakenly said amygdala

[@jasondu9904]

@@PsychExplained I have the same questions too xD😄, now I get it!

[@HtS643KyS6555GxQ3edA]

It would be cool if we could encode these signals into digital form and reinject them back into a real brain.

[@Repentforthekindomogiah]

It's already been done.

[@Repentforthekindomogiah]

Sadly and not for the good of course

[@swapnadipghosh2503]

Pardon...i got confused....so does hippocampus play a role in turning short term memories into long term or does it not play a role ????????

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[@jasonchristensen2336]

I just watched this video to hear how it’s pronounced. I thought, “surely it can’t be hippo campus”

[@PsychExplained]

Yep! And a memory technique is, would you ever forget seeing a hippo on a campus?

[@Suzanne.C]

meanwhile, hippopotamus is a river horse, so hippo must be the horse, then why campus is the field? time to ask wiki😃

[@harda7xcore]

Did you skip short term memory?

[@pjjham7768]

This video normalizes animal experimentation you say that you think the hippocampus is cool yet find no fault with having it legioned in an animal or experimented on in a poor rat who was starved to be motivated to find the cheese, then vivosected. There are alternatives out there more precise and more humane then animal subjects

[@aa-ng4ot]

Talking way too fast. Needs to speak a little slower.

[@PsychExplained]

I’ll….slow….down….next…time 😇