What Am I Gonna Do About It?

 What does the Hippocampus do?

In the movie, "A Beautiful Mind," the main character grapples with the notion that multiple personalities inhabit his body.

No doubt, he suffered from an unamalgamated, unaffiliated hippocampus.

Located in the space separating the left and right hemispheres of the brain, the hippocampus plays a lead role in facilitating memory formation and retention, in creating spatial awareness, for maintaining the storage of our experiences, and for regulating our emotions.

With a proper functioning hippocampus, we won't forget who we are; we won't forget where we've been, what we said, whom we were with, which way is left, which way is right!

The problem is, though, that apparently, very few people have an optimally functioning hippocampus, that will receive, store, retrieve, send and coordinate  impulses  between the left and right hemispheres, or even impulses that it originates on its own. 

The protagonist in "A Beautiful Mind" could not distinguish between real memory and imagination. Many people cannot recall where they were, what they say, with whom they spoke, in the last hour. People like me can forget the way home from the store - despite making that journey several times before.

Surely, there is a great need for much more research to be done into this most vital part of our anatomy. Knowing how it functions, and why it malfunctions.

Let's do it!