Limbic System

A Limbic System is a brain structure located on both sides of the thalamus, right under the cerebrum.

See: Human Brain, Thalamus, Cerebrum, Telencephalon, Diencephalon, Mesencephalon, Olfactory Bulb, Hippocampus, Amygdala, Anterior Thalamic Nuclei.

References

(Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/limbic_system Retrieved:2016-1-29.
- The limbic system (or paleomammalian brain) is a complex set of brain structures located on both sides of the thalamus, right under the cerebrum.^[1] It is not a separate system but a collection of structures from the telencephalon, diencephalon, and mesencephalon. It includes the olfactory bulbs, hippocampus, amygdala, anterior thalamic nuclei, fornix, columns of fornix, mammillary body, septum pellucidum, habenular commissure, cingulate gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, limbic cortex, and limbic midbrain areas.
  The limbic system supports a variety of functions including epinephrine flow, emotion, behavior, motivation, long-term memory, and olfaction.^[2] Emotional life is largely housed in the limbic system, and it has a great deal to do with the formation of memories.
  Although the term only originated in the 1940s, some neuroscientists, including Joseph LeDoux, have suggested that the concept of a functionally unified limbic system should be abandoned as obsolete because it is grounded mainly in historical concepts of brain anatomy that are no longer accepted as accurate.^[3]