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Position of the hippocampus in the human brain

Thehippocampus is a major component of thebrain ofhumans and many othervertebrates. It plays important roles in theconsolidation of information fromshort-term memory tolong-term memory, and inspatial memory that enablesnavigation. In humans and other primates, the hippocampus is located in thearchicortex, one of the three regions ofallocortex, in eachhemisphere. The hippocampus is a structure found in all vertebrates. InAlzheimer's disease (and other forms ofdementia), the hippocampus is one of the first regions of the brain to suffer damage;short-term memory loss anddisorientation are included among the early symptoms. Damage to the hippocampus can also result from oxygen starvation,encephalitis ormedial temporal lobe epilepsy. Since differentneuronal cell types are neatly organized into layers in the hippocampus, it has frequently been used as amodel system for studyingneurophysiology. (Full article...)

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TheAtari video game burial was a 1983 mass burial of unsoldvideo game cartridges, consoles, and computers, undertaken by the American video game and home computer companyAtari, Inc., at a landfill site in the U.S. state ofNew Mexico. The burial occurred amid thevideo game crash of 1983, at the end of a disastrous fiscal year that saw Atari being sold off by its parent companyWarner Communications. It included 700,000 cartridges of various games, including unsold copies ofE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), one of thelargest video game failures in history. For several decades after the burial was first reported, there were doubts as to its veracity and scope, and it was frequently dismissed as anurban legend. In 2013 and 2014, an excavation was carried out byFuel Industries,Microsoft, the New Mexico government and others, which revealed discarded games and hardware. Only a small fraction, about 1,300 cartridges, were recovered, with a portion reserved for curation and the rest auctioned to raise money for a museum to commemorate the burial. This photograph showspackaging for cartridges of the video gamesE.T. andCentipede in situ at the excavation site.

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