Chaotic itinerancy reality in the dynamic brain – episodic memory formation

Abstract

The hippocampus, which is a part of the old brain, has been considered responsible for the formation of episodic memory. It is also known that atrophy of the hippocampus can lead to Alzheimer’s disease. Motivated by the rehabilitation process of Alzheimer’s patients, we mathematically studied the coding scheme in the hippocampus. Predictions obtained from the model study have been partially verified by experiments using tissue slices from the rat’s hippocampus.