2-Minute Neuroscience: Limbic System

In this video, I discuss the limbic system’s role in emotion and I briefly describe some of the structures that are often included in the limbic system: the amygdala, hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, cingulate cortex, septal nuclei, mammillary bodies, fornix, and hypothalamus. For an article that discusses the limbic system more in-depth, click this link: TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to 2 minute neuroscience, where I simplistically explain neuroscience topics in 2 minutes or less. In this installment I will discuss the limbic system. The word limbic comes from the Latin limbus, which means border, and the limbic system was given this name because its structures lie along a horseshoe shaped area of cortex that appears to be a border between the cerebral cortex and the subcortical structures of the diencephalon. There are many processes associated with the limbic system, but the system is most frequently lin