limbic system
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Introduction
The word limbic means border.
Originally "limbic" was used to describe the border structures around the base of the cerebrum, but has now been expanded to mean the entire neuronal circuitry that controls emotional behavior & motivational drives.
More general terms
Component of
Components
- reward center
- amygdala
- medial septal nucleus
- septal nucleus
- olfactory tract
- olfactory bulb
- hippocampus (hippocampal formation)
- cingulate gyrus; gyrus cinguli; cingulate cortex
- hypothalamus
References
- ↑ Textbook of Medical Physiology, 8th ed., AC Guyton, WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1991, pg 651