Limbic System

A topic within Neuroanatomy, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.

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Book1990

The Triune Brain in Evolution

Paul MacLean

Argues the human brain evolved in three successive anatomical layers - reptilian, limbic and neocortical - a model since undermined by comparative neuroanatomy showing no such discrete evolutionary strata.

Neuroscience · Neuroanatomy

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Paper1937

A Proposed Mechanism of Emotion

James Papez

Proposes a closed anatomical circuit running from hippocampus through hypothalamus and thalamus to cingulate cortex as the substrate of emotional experience.

Neuroscience · Neuroanatomy

PaidAdvanced

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