Anatomy Of Memory And Emotion

Question 1

Where do we keep episodic memory and long term?

Answer 1

Hippocampus- has place cells and grid cells (spatial navigation)

Question 2

Structure of hippocampus?

Answer 2

Cornu ammonis (CA1-4), dentate gyrus, subiculum

Question 3

Major output pathway of hippocampus?

Answer 3

Fornix

Question 4

What is the parahippocampal gyrus important for?

Answer 4

Recognition memory, parahippocampal place area

Question 5

Neuromodulatory pathway acetylcholine?

Answer 5

Basal nucleus of Meynert to neocortex

Medial septal nucleus to hippocampus

Question 6

Amygdala nucleus:

Answer 6

Basolateral nucleus

Central nucleus

Question 7

Alexithymia

Answer 7

Inability to describe and identify emotions experienced

Question 8

What is the Dorsal anterior cingulate involved in?

Answer 8

Stress response and arousal, emotional awareness, cognitive control of emotion

Question 9

Subgenal anterior cingulate

Answer 9

Reward, depression

Question 10

Insular cortex?

Answer 10

Inner feelings, introception.

Cravings, urges and anxiety

Question 11

Occipital-temporal?

Answer 11

Social emotional behaviour

Question 12

Fusiform face area?

Answer 12

Facial recognition, present in inferior temporal cortex, fusiform gyrus

Question 13

Mesolimbic emotion pathway

Answer 13

Ventral tegmental area to ventral striatum/ prefrontal cortex by dopamine

Question 14

Noradrenaline pathway

Answer 14

Locus coeruleus to thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus and cortices

Question 15

Serotonin pathways

Answer 15

Raphe nuclei to subcortical centres and cortex