"Perirhinal Cortex" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An area in the temporal lobe that is important for memory encoding and retrieval. It is bordered caudally by the parahippocampal cortex (see HIPPOCAMPUS) and ventrally and medially by the ENTORHINAL CORTEX.
| Descriptor ID |
D000071039
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.863.574
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| Concept/Terms |
Perirhinal Cortex- Perirhinal Cortex
- Cortex, Perirhinal
- Cortices, Perirhinal
- Perirhinal Cortices
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| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Perirhinal Cortex" by people in Profiles.
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Mecp2 Deletion from Cholinergic Neurons Selectively Impairs Recognition Memory and Disrupts Cholinergic Modulation of the Perirhinal Cortex. eNeuro. 2019 Nov/Dec; 6(6).
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Direct electrical stimulation of the amygdala enhances declarative memory in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 01 02; 115(1):98-103.