What are the major structures of the medial temporal lobe?

Question

Basic question here from a behavioral researcher: What are the major structures of the medial temporal lobe (MTL)? Can anyone link to a good diagram of these structures?

Answer 1

The MTL consists of (note that some structures overlap):

• cortical areas, which can be categorized in at least three ways:
  • portions of two gyri
    • entire parahippocampal gyrus
    • anterior medial side of fusiform gyrus
  • five named cortical areas:
    • perirhinal cortex
    • parahippocampal cortex (see parahippocampal gyrus)
    • entorhinal cortex
    • presubiculum*
    • parasubiculum*
  • five Brodmann areas: 27, 28, 34, 35, 36
• hippocampus
• amygdala*

* indicates that not all literature includes this component in the MTL

I didn't find a diagram of only the MTL. The best diagrams I found were (not shown here because I don't own the copyright):

• Figure 1
• Figure 2
• Figure 3

References

• Brodmann, K. (1909) Vergleichende Lokalisationslehre der Grosshirnrinde in ihren Prinzipien dargestellt auf Grund des Zellenbaues. Leipzig : Johann Ambrosius Barth.

• Squire, L.R., Stark, C.E.L., & Clark, R.E. (2004) The Medial Temporal Lobe. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 27:279–306 [pdf]