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subcortical regions of the brain
near basal ganglia
emotional processing motivation
links to memory
behavior control
evolutionarily older system |
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| voluntary and automatic function |
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| near midbrain and diencephalon |
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amgydala
hypothalamus
hippocampus
mammillary bodies
fornix
cingulated cortex-gyrus |
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motivation related
emotion regulation
fear and aggression
modulates memory
anterior to the hippocampus: role in emotional memories |
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| bilateral amgydala damage |
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hypersexuality
emotional placidity
visual Agnosia
don't have same fear responses |
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connected to the amgydala
fighting fleeing feeding fornicating |
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memory
helps move information to long-term storage |
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| types of hippocampus damage |
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| hippocampus damage: bilateral |
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effects explicity
not implicit memory
HM
anterograde amnesia |
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| hippocampus damage: unilateral (and by side) |
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material - specific memory disorders
left: language
verbal memory deficits
right: spatial
visual |
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| unable to encode new memories |
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| inability to remember previous memories |
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memory
korsakoff's syndrome: thymine
ventral side of the brain |
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tracts of axons connects mammilary bodies to hippocampus
important for memory
can see same types of amnesia in the two structures |
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true border between autonomic and voluntary
many functions
links physiological emotions with awareness of emotions
social norms |
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functions identified for cingulate cortex
gyrus |
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memory
emotion
mood
decision-making
pain perception
social cognition
selective attention
conditioning
& more |
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damage cingulate cortex
gyrus |
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flat affect
moodiness
notices pain but doesn't bother them |
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| Limbic system linked to prefrontal cortex |
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Inhibits inappropriate emotional or motivational expression
Frontal lobotomy:Sever connections between PFC & limbic system
Flat affect, zombie-like |
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