what is hippocampus
The hippocampus is a small region of the brain that forms part of the limbic system and is primarily associated with memory and spatial navigation.he hippocampus can become also become damaged through oxygen deprivation or hypoxia, infection or inflammation or as a result of temporal lobe epilepsy. Individuals with hippocampal damage develop amnesia and may be unable to form new memories of the time or location of an event, for example.