THE ANATOMY OF THE BASAL FOREBRAIN

摘要: This chapter describes four anatomical structures: septum, accumbens, substantia innominata, and amygdala (amygdaloid body) as an introduction to the anatomy systems of basal forebrain. Besides obvious continuations olfactory system orbitofrontal temporal cortical regions, these elusive or poorly demarcated structures define telencephalic part A pictorial survey human forebrain is presented, which reflects current understanding organization Septum, are key limbic that figure prominently in neuroscience literature, ranking among most popular brain studies emotion, motivation, substance abuse, neuropsychiatric disorders. The advances have exposed some fundamental organizational principles, relevant for study emotional motivated behavioral expression pathophysiology major ventral striatopallidal extended described, intertwined a complicated fashion with components nucleus Meynert These receive their salient projections from orbitomedial cingulate prefrontal cortices insula, well medial lobe structures, basolateral amygdala, hippocampal formation, neighboring regions. areas integral parts greater increasingly implicated sites primary pathology