What is the limbic system and why does it matter? Can we override it? How can we work with the limbic system to understand and change behavior?

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References and Suggested reading/listening:

Peer Reviewed Scholarly Publications

• Anand, BK (1957). Structure and Functions of the Limbic System (“Visceral Brain”) : A Review. Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

• Broca, P. (1877). Sur la circonvolution limbique et la scissure limbique. Bulletins de La Société d’anthropologie de Paris, 12(1), 646–657. https://doi.org/10.3406/bmsap.1877.3284

• Broca, P. (1878). Comparative anatomy of the cerebral convolutions The great limbic lobe and the limbic fissure in the series of mammals. Revue d’Anthropologie , 2(1), 385–49.

• Broca, P. (2015). Comparative anatomy of the cerebral convolutions: The great limbic lobe and the limbic fissure in the mammalian series. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 523(17), 2501–2554. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.23856

• Carr, L., Iacoboni, M., Dubeau, M.-C., Mazziotta, J. C., & Lenzi, G. L. (2003). Neural mechanisms of empathy in humans: A relay from neural systems for imitation to limbic areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(9), 5497–5502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0935845100

• MacLean, P. D. (1952). Some psychiatric implications of physiological studies on frontotemporal portion of limbic system (Visceral brain). Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 4(4), 407–418. https://doi.org/10.1016/0013-4694(52)90073-4

• Morgane, P., Galler, J., & Mokler, D. (2005). A review of systems and networks of the limbic forebrain/limbic midbrain. Progress in Neurobiology, 75(2), 143–160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2005.01.001

• Morgane, P. J., & Mokler, D. J. (2006). The limbic brain: Continuing resolution. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 30(2), 119–125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2005.04.020

• Roxo, M. R., Franceschini, P. R., Zubaran, C., Kleber, F. D., & Sander, J. W. (2011). The limbic system conception and its historical evolution. TheScientificWorldJournal, 11, 2428–2441. https://doi.org/10.1100/2011/157150

Podcasts and interviews:

• The Limbic (Emotion/Behavior) System with David Mokler

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