Lecture 5 & 6 - Limbic System And Cortex Flashcards
What is the role of the limbic system?
Survival and spatial memory
What are the four Fs of the autonomic nervous system?
Fighting feeding fleeing and FUCKING
What are the roles of parasympathetic and the sympathetic system?
Relax and panic respectively
What are the outputs of the parasympathetic nervous system?
Craniosacral
What are the outputs of the sympathetic nervous system?
Thoracolumbar
What are the 5 parts of the limbic system?
Limbic cortex
Amygdala
Hippocampus
Hypothalamus + mammillary bodies
What is the hypothalamus?
A collection of nuclei with control over autonomic nervous and hormone secretion
What can you see of the hypothalamus on the ventral surface of the brain? (Looking up at it basically)
The mammillary body’s between the peduncles
What does the hippocampus look like in 3d?
Like two curved bananas on the inside of the brain, on certain coronal cuts its super ventral from the lateral ventricle
Where is the amygdala in terms of the hippocampus?
Anterior
What are the functions of the hippocampus?
Consolidation of memory and spatial memory
What are the connections of the hippocampus?
Input from entorhinal cortex
Outputs through fimbria, fornix to mammillary bodies/hypothalamus, cortex
Where besides the olfactory bulbs are new neurons created in adulthood?
The dentate gyrus
Describe the hippocampal circuitry
Entorhinal cortex -> dentate gyrus -> CA3 -> CA1 -> fimbria then fornix
What are the functions of the amygdala?
Fear, rage and aggression, sexual behavior
Describe the basolateral amygdala
- slower, cognitive
- inputs from hippocampus, association cortex, sensory cortex/thalamus
- outputs to medial prefrontal cortex, association cortex, ventral striatum/nucleus accumbens
Describe the central amygdala
- faster, automatic
- lower level sensory input
- output to autonomic nervous system and modulators systems
What are both basolateral and central nuclei of the amygdala controlled by?
Medial prefrontal cortex
Where is the amygdala in a coronal cut?
Where you think the hippocampus would be
Where is the limbic cortex?
Above the corpus collosum and wraps around the front of it