“…While the other subunits of the hippocampus have received extensive attention, the CA2 region has been largely neglected, poorly understood, and for the most part, unexplained (Chevaleyre and Siegelbaum, 2010; Caruana et al, 2012; Cui et al, 2013; Stevenson and Caldwell, 2014). Recent evidence has shed light on the obscurities of the CA2, characterizing it as a distinct subregion, with its own unique afferents and efferents, cellular composition, and contribution to hippocampal processes (Cui et al, 2013; Dudek et al, 2016; Mou, 2016).…”