The Limbic Brain

• Main Author: Lautin, Andrew (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Medicine.; History.; Neurosciences.; Human anatomy.; Psychiatry.; Evolutionary biology.; Biomedicine.; Anatomy.; Evolutionary Biology.; History, general.

Nearly, 50 years ago, Karl Pribram in a discussion section accompanying MacLean’s proposal of a limbic system, criticized the visceral or limbic brain concept as theoretically too vague and cumbersome. In a recent review of the limbic system, Swanson points to Brodal’s criticism that the discovery o...

Table of Contents:

• Broca’s Lobe
• Papez’s Circuit
• Maclean’s Limbic System
• Nautha’s Limbic Midbrain
• Heimer’s Limbic Stricatum.