Limbic System

  • Hippocampus – memory processing. memory
  • Amygdala – emotional processing.
  • Mammillary bodies – memory.
  • Fornix – connects hippocampus to mammillary bodies.
  • Cingulate cortex – emotion, pain, cognitive control, reward anticipation. anteriorCingulateCortex
  • Parahippocampal gyrus – spatial/memory processing.
  • Key in learning, memory, and emotion.

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