What is the limbic system

In this BIOLOGY video we will explain "What is the limbic system".

What is the limbic system. In this video we are going to see what the limbic system and before continuing we anticipate that it is a video to start walking. It is not a video made in depth. We are going to make shorter and more selective videos for each of the regions. This video is to do as a "bird's eye view" of; which regions are part of this system that is mainly responsible for generating and regulating emotions. The limbic system has several structures and there is also no consensus among scientists between which they are; sure yes and which insurance no. Rather; There are some structures that are clearly involved, but there are so many others that are seen to influence that It is not yet well defined if there are 15, 20 or 30 structures that make up the limbic system (or are less...). We are going to comment on some of those that it is very clear that they participate. One is the tonsil complex, where we find the amygdala and the terminal striae. The

tonsil complex we will work it more and specifically the amygdala because it is one of the most studied regions due to how important it is in the response that animals have to fear. When the amygdala is activated we experience an intense emotion. We will talk more about this in the amygdala video. The hippocampal formation, on the other hand, contains the hippocampus and the parahippocampal regions. That they will participate in the formation of explicit memory. That is to say, of verbalizable memory. We will also find the cingulate gyrus. The cingulate gyrus is a region that receives information from both the amygdal complex and the hippocampal formation and emits it to the front regions. It made regions of the prefrontal cortex. The cingulate gyrus has several (many) functions. One perhaps of the most anecdotal is that; It is a region that is activated when we experience a conflictive situation.

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