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Cerebral Hemispheres: The limbic system
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 3
10/01/2012

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Term
The limbic system is known as the -- brain
Definition
emotional
Term
The limbic system is located:
Definition
Medial aspect of cerebral hemispheres, and also w/in the diencephalon (hypothalamus)
Term
The limbic system is composed of:
Definition
septal nuclei, cingulate gyrus, and hippocampal formation; part of the amygdal
All together form a ring structure
Term
Functions of-
1. Septal nuclei
2. Cingulate gyrus
3. Amygdala
4. Hippocampal formation
Definition
1. Sexual responses, agression
2. emotion formation, motivation, interprets pain as unpleasant
3. Fear center
4. Hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus, involved with memory
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