The hippocampus is a part of the forebrain, located in the medial temporal lobe. It belongs to the limbic system and plays major roles in long term memory and spatial navigation. Humans and other mammals have two hippocampi, one in each side of the brain.
The project seeks to develop an ethical and policy framework for building a medical information commons â a networked environment in which diverse sources of health, medical and genomic data on large populations become broadly available for research and clinical use.
1 Baylor College of Medicine. 2  Baylor College of Medicine News. 3  Ethics.  Advisory Committee to address policy issues related to building a medical information commons to share medical and genomic data.