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Limbic System Flashcards

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Caudal system involved in ____

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Memory

Visuospatial function

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Rostral system of limbic system involved in ___

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emotion

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Anatomic systems involved in rostral limbic system: (5)

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Olfactory system
Insula
Amygdala
Anterior cingulate cortex
Medial frontal cortex
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Letinculostriate arteries supply (3)

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Striatum
Globus pallidus
Internal capsule

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Piriform cortex =

Fuction:

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Uncus + amygdala + anterior parahippocampal gyrus

Olfaction

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Lateral olfactory striae terminate in:

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Piriform cortex

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Medial striae terminal in:

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Septal region

Anterior hypothalamus and anterior commissure

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Insular cortex is involved in:

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Taste
Experience of visceral pain
Affective/emotional qualities of taste, odor emotive sounds, visceral and somatic pain
Pleasant sensations

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Pain centers: (4)

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Postcentral gyrus: somatotopic location of somatic pain
Short gyri of insula: Emotional aspect of somatic and visceral pain
Amygdala: additional target for direct viscerosomatic pain signals
Periaqueductal gray area (PAG): additional target for direct viscerosomatic pain signals –> defensive behavior and main modulation

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PAG as a pain center is important for:

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defensive behavior and pain modulation

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Major functions of amygdala: (4)

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  1. Associative learning involving emotional stimuli
  2. Recognition of emotional stimuli
  3. Emotional responses
  4. Control of sexual behavior
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Only component of amygdala that sends axons back to cortex

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Basal and lateral component of amygdala

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Receives majory of cortical inputs to amygdala

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Basal and lateral component of amygdala

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Sends axons to striatal structures (caudate, putamen, nucleus accumbens, central component of amygdala)

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Basal and lateral component of amygdala

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Power source of input to basal forebrain cholinergic neurons

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Basal and lateral component of amygdala

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Basal component of amygdala involved in:

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association between emotive stimuli and neutral stimuli are made

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Amygdala connections back to cortex are involved in:

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generating recognition

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Amygdala connections to striatum (central component) are involved in:

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execution of emotive responses

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Central component involved in:

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learning and expression of emotional behaviors (fear conditioning)

Generate stereotypic responses to unpleasant/threatening stimuli

19
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Corticomedial component of amygdala has a strong connection with:
Involved in:

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Olfactory system and medial hypothalamus

Sexually dimorphic

Sexual behavior

20
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Kluver-Bucy syndrome

Signs: (5)

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Classic syndrome associated with amygdala

  1. Psychic blindness: inability to detect emotional/social significance
  2. Hypersexuality
  3. Lack of fear
  4. Hyperorality
  5. Memory and learning deficits
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Infralimbic cortex involved in:

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sadness and effects of anti-depressants

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2 components of parahippocampal gyrus

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Entorhinal cortex: Organizing spatial information

Perirhinal cortex: multimodal memory storage area

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Hippocampus involved in:

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Spatial and contextual memory
Episodic memory: recall familiar personal events
Object related information

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Lesion to anterior part of cingulate cortex results in:

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Loss of social embarrassment

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Posterior part of cingulate involved in:

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Self-reference

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Retrosplenial area involved in:

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representing spatial or context-dependent memory

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Lesion to retrosplenial area of cingulate cortex results in:

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loss of ability to navigate

Can’t place themselves in environmental context

28
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Regions involved in psychomotor epilepsy (4)

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Amygdala
Hippocampus
Medial temporal lobe
Insula

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Symptoms of psychomotor epilepsy

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Hallucination
Abnormal olfactory, taste, sexual sensation
Abnormal stereotypic movements of tongue, face, jaw
Amnesia
Aggression

30
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Infects only the limbic system, especially the temporal lobe

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Herpes simplex virus

31
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Autism is a dysfunction in ____

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cingulate and limbic striatum

32
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Alzheimer’s disease involves degeneration of ____

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Parahippocampal gyrus (early) 
Hippocampus, amygdala

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