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| group of inter-connected brain regions consisting of cortical and sub-cortical structures within the basal forebrain and cingulate cortex. |
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| critical role in emotion, motivation, and cognition. |
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| involves in initial processing of all sensory info (not smell) before primary sensory cortex. |
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| involved in the perception of emotion and is reactive to emotional contexts |
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in amygdala.
recieves olfactory info (odors; phermones)
sends excitatory signals to the hypothalamus- drive/emotion |
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| lateral/basolateral nucleus |
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in amygdala.
recieves sensory info & info about memories (hippocampus)
sends excitatory signals to nucleus accumbens (reward/ motor region) |
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receives info from lateral & basolateral nucleus of the amygdala
sends excitatory signals to a host of regions involves in arousal (hypothalamus, midbrain structures, pons and medulla) -arousal/drive/motivation |
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| involved in the transition of info from short-term memory to long-term memory |
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| inability to recall new events, people, places, and things |
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| brain damage that produces anterograde amnesia and is usually the result of chronic alcoholism |
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| impairs the recall of emotional memories |
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| impairs the recall of episodic memory (memories of events) |
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