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.
PubMed is a free research database service provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. PubMed is incredibly comprehensive; as of October 2011 it has indexed more than 21 million records going back to 1809, with another half-million articles added every year.