Limbic system

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Author: Dr. Menno P. Witter, Dept Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway,

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Dr. Menno P. Witter accepted the invitation on 29 October 2007 (self-imposed deadline: 29 January 2008).

This article will briefly cover: The concept of the limbic system, how it originated and what it means, the development over time and the current ideas leading to teh general idea that the limbic system as a systems concept should be abandoned; better to speak about limbic brain structures

Invited by: Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia
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