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Limbic System
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Definition of 'Limbic System'A set of forebrain structures common to all mammals that is defined functionally and anatomically. It is implicated in the higher integration of visceral, olfactory, and somatic information as well as homeostatic responses including fundamental survival behaviors (feeding, mating, emotion). For most authors, it includes the AMYGDALA; EPITHALAMUS; GYRUS CINGULI; hippocampal formation (see HIPPOCAMPUS); HYPOTHALAMUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; SEPTAL NUCLEI; anterior nuclear group of thalamus, and portions of the basal ganglia. (Parent, Carpenter's Human Neuroanatomy, 9th ed, p744; NeuroNames, http://rprcsgi.rprc.washington.edu/neuronames/index.html (September 2, 1998)). |
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Temporolimbic activation by intracranial electrical stimulation.
30 Aug 2009 
BACKGROUND: To evaluate the results of intracranial electrical stimulation (ICES) as a pre-surgical tool in order to select the side of the operation in bitemporal lobe epilepsy (BTLE) patients who underwent depth electrode (DE) implantation. ... Read more...
Search for a threatening target triggers limbic guidance of spatial attention.
24 Aug 2009 The ability to actively locate potential threats in our environment is highly adaptive. To investigate mediating neural mechanisms, we designed a visual search task in which central cues signaled future location and emotional expression (angry or ... Read more...
Human vulnerability to stress depends on amygdala's predisposition and hippocampal plasticity.
3 Aug 2009 Variations in people's vulnerability to stressful life events may rise from a predated neural sensitivity as well as from differential neural modifications in response to the event. Because the occurrence of a stressful life event cannot be ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Limbic System'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Temporolimbic activation by intracranial electrical stimulation. 30 Aug 2009
- Search for a threatening target triggers limbic guidance of spatial attention. 24 Aug 2009
- Human vulnerability to stress depends on amygdala's predisposition and hippocampal plasticity. 3 Aug 2009
- A brief review of the anatomy and physiology of the limbic system. 30 Jul 2009
- Extratemporal "limbic" seizures--introductory remarks.
30 Jul 2009 - Surgical anatomy and functional connectivity of the limbic system. 30 Jul 2009
- Introduction: surgery of limbic and paralimbic gliomas. 30 Jul 2009
- Combined SEEG and source localisation study of temporal lobe schizencephaly and polymicrogyria. 22 Jul 2009
- A neural computational model of incentive salience.
15 Jul 2009 - Estrous cycle influences the expression of neuronal nitric oxide synthase in the hypothalamus and limbic system of female mice. 13 Jul 2009
- Understanding human aggression: New insights from neuroscience. 10 Jul 2009
- Bilateral temporal glioma presenting as a paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis with pure cognitive impairment. 29 Jun 2009
- The prefrontal cortex is out of tune in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. 29 Jun 2009
- Sexually dimorphic gray matter volume reduction in patients with panic disorder. 25 Jun 2009
- Adolescent male rats exposed to social defeat exhibit altered anxiety behavior and limbic monoamines as adults. 30 May 2009
- ERK2 and CREB activation in the amygdala when an event is remembered as "Fearful" and not when it is remembered as "Instructive". 30 May 2009
- Neurotransmitters and prefrontal cortex-limbic system interactions: implications for plasticity and psychiatric disorders. 26 May 2009
- Assessing the neuroendocrine stress response in the functional neuroimaging context. 25 May 2009
- Unstable prefrontal response to emotional conflict and activation of lower limbic structures and brainstem in remitted panic disorder. 18 May 2009
- The anatomy of extended limbic pathways in Asperger syndrome: a preliminary diffusion tensor imaging tractography study. 12 May 2009
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Technical information about 'Limbic System'
Definition: A set of forebrain structures common to all mammals that is defined functionally and anatomically. It is implicated in the higher integration of visceral, olfactory, and somatic information as well as homeostatic responses including fundamental survival behaviors (feeding, mating, emotion). For most authors, it includes the AMYGDALA; EPITHALAMUS; GYRUS CINGULI; hippocampal formation (see HIPPOCAMPUS); HYPOTHALAMUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; SEPTAL NUCLEI; anterior nuclear group of thalamus, and portions of the basal ganglia. (Parent, Carpenter's Human Neuroanatomy, 9th ed, p744; NeuroNames, http://rprcsgi.rprc.washington.edu/neuronames/index.html (September 2, 1998)).
Descriptor UI: D008032
Alternative terms: Limbic System; Limbic Systems; System, Limbic; Systems, Limbic;
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