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1
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What does the limbic system control?

A

Emotional Behavior Motivational Drives

2
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What role does the hypothalamus play in the limbic system?

A

Create physiologic response to emotion

3
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What role does the olfactory areas play in the limbic system?

A

Smell and emotion is strongly linked and can be a strong stimulus

4
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What role does the thalamus play in the limbic system?

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Relays sensory information into system

5
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What role does the basal ganglia play in the limbic system?

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Tied to pleasure and disgust

6
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What role does the hippocampus play in the limbic system?

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Links emotion to memory creation and plays a role in surprise

7
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What role does the amygdala play in the limbic system?

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Tied to fear and anger that can also lead to memory formation

8
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What role does the anterior cingulate cortex play in the limbic system?

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Can play a role in why emotions continue after initial event

  • Higher level control
  • Sadness
9
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What is the mirror neuron system?

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Neurons that fire when you see someone else do the same action

  • play a role in imitation and imitative learning
10
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What is innate fear?

A

Unconditioned fear that requires no experience

11
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What is learned fear?

A

Conditioned fear from experience

12
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What is the direct pathway for fear?

A

Thalamo-amygdaloid pathway to the lateral nucleus of amygdala

13
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What does the direct pathway for fear mediate?

A

rapid responses to fear

14
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What is the indirect pathway for fear?

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Thalamo-cortico-amygdaloid pathway to the lateral nucleus of amygdala

15
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What does the indirect pathway for fear mediate?

A

Later responses to fear

16
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What is the role of the lateral nucleus of the amygdala

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Integrates the inputs for learned fear

Pairing sound and electrical shock

17
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After inputs from both fear pathways arrive at the lateral thalamus of the amygdala, where do these inputs travel to?

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Basal and intercalated nuclei of the amygdala for additional processing

18
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After traveling to the basal and intercalated nuclei of the amygdala, where does the information travel to?

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Central nucleus of amygdala

19
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What does the the central nucleus of amygdala do and where does it send information to?

A

Decides what responses and required

Relays to hypothalamus to create physiologic response

20
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What happens if a person presents with a damaged amygdala?

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Fear is not perceived and there is no conditioning to fear

21
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What receptors does “anger” use?

A

D2 receptors at amygdala

22
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What regions of the brain can inhibit anger?

A

Neocortex

Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nuclei

Septal Nuclei

23
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What is avoidance?

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Prevents behaviors that have short term rewards but long term negative consequences

24
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What are the anatomical structures that deal with avoidance?

A
  • Lateral posterior hypothalamus
  • Dorsal midbrain
  • Entorhinal cortex
25
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What are the anatomical structures that deal with sadness?

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Lower sector of anterior cingulate cortex

26
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What are the anatomical structures that process and recognise social cues related to disgust

A

Putamen and insular cortex

27
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What are the anatomical structures that deal with surprise?

A

Parahippocampal gyrus

28
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What does the ventral region of the anterior cingulate cortex do?

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  • Integration of visceral, attentional and emotional input
  • Controlling emotion display
  • Conflict detection (I’m angry but I’m standing in front of my boss)
  • Relays information to prefrontal cortex to determine what to do
29
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What does the dorsolateral division of the prefrontal cortex do?

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Recives input from motor areas and decides whether motion is appropriate

30
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Where does the ventromedial division of the prefrontal cortex receive input from?

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  • Amygdala
  • Hippocampus
  • Temporal visual association area
  • Dorsolateral division of the prefrontal cortex
31
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What is the role of the ventromedial division of the prefrontal cortex do?

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  • Reward processing - with the amygdala, we link new stimulus to a primary reward
  • Integration of bodily signals - Gut Feeling
  • Top down regulation - Delayed Gratification
32
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Huntington’s disease abolishes what emotion

A

Disgust

becuase it damages the Putamen