现今在生理学和病理学的文献中,人们对海马发生了较大的兴趣。其原因是:第一,在某些脑疾病的发生中,海马被认为是起了重要的作用;第二,关于海马的功能还有着很多矛盾的资料。不久前认为海马仅与机体的嗅觉功能有关。但是从海马同脑于及皮层的许多神经联系看来,表明海马还具有多方面复杂的功能。进一步研究证明海马可接受视觉、听觉、触觉、痛觉、本体感受性和内感受性的刺激。同时发现感觉性冲动是经过脑干网状结构传送到海马的,海马不仅可抑制机体的躯体性、植物性和情绪反应;在一定的条件下也能够出现容易化影响。有丰富的临床资料证明海马在人类高级神经活动中的意义。在患各种精神病(特别是记忆丧失症)时,临床医师在海马找到了病理病变(血管 Nowadays, there is a great interest in the hippocampus in the literature of physiology and pathology. The reasons are: First, the hippocampus is thought to play an important role in the development of certain brain diseases. Second, there are many contradictory information about the function of the hippocampus. Not long ago that the hippocampus and the body’s olfactory function only. However, from the many neural connections of the hippocampus with brain and cortex, it shows that the hippocampus also has many complex functions. Further studies demonstrate that hippocampus can be stimulated by visual, auditory, tactile, painful, proprioceptive and endogenous sensitivities. Also found that sensory impulses are transmitted to the hippocampus via the brainstem reticular structure, hippocampus not only inhibits the body’s somatic, vegetative and emotional response; in certain conditions can also be easy to influence. There is a wealth of clinical data to demonstrate the significance of hippocampus in human advanced neuronal activity. In a variety of mental illness (especially memory loss disorder), clinicians found pathological lesions in the hippocampus (blood vessels