Limbic system

Question 1

What are emotions?

Answer 1

CNS responses to stimuli

Question 2

what are the outputs from emotion?

Answer 2

autonomic, hormonal, behavioural, subjective ‘feeling’

Question 3

what are the basic emotions?

Answer 3

fear, disgust, surprise, anger, happiness, sadness

Question 4

what are the complex emotions?

Answer 4

love, shame, guilt, amusement

Question 5

what is the amygdala and where is it?

Answer 5

a collection of nuclei in the temporal lobe

Question 6

what does the amygdala have a special role in?

Answer 6

fear

Question 7

which nucleus does the sensory thalamus and cortex inputs go to in the amygdala? what type of inputs are these?

Answer 7

lateral nucleus

visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, somatosensory

Question 8

what are the two roads of sensory inputs to amygdala?

Answer 8

high road- fast, direct input from thalamus

low road- slower, processed by cortical regions first

Question 9

where is the output from basal nucleus of amygdala?

Answer 9

ventral striatum (instrumental actions)

Question 10

what are the outputs from central nucleus of amygdala?

Answer 10

hypothalamus and brainstem (reactions) 
modulatory systems (NE, DA, Ach