Karen Duff and Abid Hussaini of Columbia University Medical Center, New York, and their colleagues correlate tau pathology in the medial entorhinal cortex (EC) with three things: loss of excitatory ...

EC layers were classified using current-source density estimates (see Supplementary Methods). Grid cells were found at an approximately equal frequency across both superficial and deep layers (14 ...

Discovered in 2005 by May-Britt and Edvard Moser, grid cells lay the foundation for building mental maps of your surroundings and for tracking your precise positions within these landscapes. As ...

According to this model, place cells, along with grid cells found in the entorhinal cortex, act as a scaffold that can be used to anchor memories as a linked series. "This model is a first-draft ...