Abstract:The first steps of the discovery, and the main discoverers, of the hippocampus are
outlined. Arantius was the first to describe a structure he named "hippocampus" or
"white silkworm". Despite numerous controversies and alternate designations, the term
hippocampus has prevailed until this day as the most widely used term. Duvernoy
provided an illustration of the hippocampus and surrounding structures, considered
the first by most authors, which appeared more than one and a half century after
Arantius' descripti… Show more
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