Megan Scudellari | Jul 26, 2010 | 3 min read
#1 Neurons complete hippocampus loop There's a new, important function for a once-obscure cell population in the brain: CA2 pyramidal neurons, a subset of cells in the hippocampus, form a link between electrical inputs and outputs in the hippocampus. V. Chevaleye et al., "Strong CA2 pyramidal neuron synapses define a powerful disynaptic cortico-hippocampal loop," linkurl:Neuron,;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/20510860?dopt=Abstract&holding=f1000,f1000m,isrctn 66:560-72, 2010. linkurl