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limbic system

  1. cingulate cortex (limbic lobe)
    controls attention and conscoius emotional experience
  2. eptal nuclei
    feelings of pleasure
  3. amygdala
    processes stimuli related to fear, anxiety, and positive reward
  4. hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrys
    • episodic memory
    • spatial navigation
  5. mamillary body
    memory formation
  6. hypothalamus
    • regulates autonomic nervous system
    • homeostatic behaviors
  7. fornix
    connects hippocampus to septal nuclei and mamillary body
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limbic system
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brain structures limbic system
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