Notes on Limbic System
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Notes on Limbic System
Limbic system:
• Emotion, memory, attention, feeding, mating, olfactory.
• Represented by the Papez circuit, which begins and ends in the hippocampus
Anterograde amnesia:
• Bilaterally damaged medial temporal lobes including hippocampus.
• New information cannot be learned.
Korsakoff syndrome:
• Seen in alcoholics with thiamine deficiency.
• Wernike encephalopathy also present.
• Patients make up stories of forgotten past experiences.
Kluver-Bucy syndrome:
• Bilateral lesions in amygdala and hippocampus.
• Aggressive, fearlessness, tendency to orally explore objects, hypersexuality, anterograde amnesia.
Additional Readings:
Basic Neurology
1. Peripheral Nervous System
2. Central Nervous System
3. The Ventricular System
4. The Spinal Cord
5. The Brain Stem
6. The Cerebellum
7. Visual Pathways
8. Diencephalon
9. Basal Ganglia
10. Cerebral Cortex
11. The Limbic System
12. Sleep Disorders
13. Autonomic Nervous System
14. Cranial Nerves and Parasympathetic Ganglia
15. Cells of the Nervous System
16. Cerebrospinal fluid
17. Additional short notes on Cerebrum
18. Functions and Diseases of Cerebrum
19. Subcortical Grey Matter
20. Notes on The Spinal Cord
21. Regulation of Heart Rate by Autonomic Nervous System
22. Action Potentials, Axon Conduction, and Neuromuscular Junction
Related Topics
1. Nervous System Disorders
2. Histology of Nervous Tissue
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