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.
MEDLINE/PubMed: 1  Is a database of professional biomedical literature. 2  Is a Web-based, searchable database of over 25 million article references published in more than 5600 biomedical journals. 3  Can be searched for free.  Includes links to some full-text journal articles via publishers' Web 1  pages. Publisher access to articles varies by publisher.