"Place Cells" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Pyramidal neurons in the HIPPOCAMPUS that play a role in cognitive representation of a specific location within a space.
| Descriptor ID |
D000071037
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.675.790.500 A11.671.790.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Place Cells- Place Cells
- Cell, Place
- Cells, Place
- Place Cell
- Hippocampal Place Cells
- Cell, Hippocampal Place
- Cells, Hippocampal Place
- Hippocampal Place Cell
- Place Cell, Hippocampal
- Place Cells, Hippocampal
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Place Cells" by people in Profiles.
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Formation of an expanding memory representation in the hippocampus. Nat Neurosci. 2025 Jul; 28(7):1510-1518.
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Mechanisms of experience-dependent place-cell referencing in hippocampal area CA1. Nat Neurosci. 2025 Jul; 28(7):1486-1496.
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Closed-loop modulation of remote hippocampal representations with neurofeedback. Neuron. 2025 Mar 19; 113(6):949-961.e3.
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Place cells dynamically refine grid cell activities to reduce error accumulation during path integration in a continuous attractor model. Sci Rep. 2022 12 12; 12(1):21443.
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Tetrode recording of rat CA1 place cells in an observational spatial working memory task. STAR Protoc. 2022 09 16; 3(3):101501.
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Observational learning promotes hippocampal remote awake replay toward future reward locations. Neuron. 2022 03 02; 110(5):891-902.e7.
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Memory retrieval modulates spatial tuning of single neurons in the human entorhinal cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2019 12; 22(12):2078-2086.
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Temporal coding and rate remapping: Representation of nonspatial information in the hippocampus. Hippocampus. 2019 02; 29(2):111-127.
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Hippocampal awake replay in fear memory retrieval. Nat Neurosci. 2017 Apr; 20(4):571-580.
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Inhibitory suppression of heterogeneously tuned excitation enhances spatial coding in CA1 place cells. Nat Neurosci. 2017 Mar; 20(3):417-426.