Enlarged limbic structures in the human brain: the anterior thalamus and medial mamillary body.

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MOCA Reference, APE

Publication Type: Journal Article

Authors: Armstrong, E

Year of Publication: 1986

Journal: Brain Res

Volume: 362

Issue: 2

Pagination: 394-7

Date Published: 01/1986

Publication Language: eng

ISSN: 0006-8993

Keywords: Animals, Biological Evolution, Brain, Cell Count, Haplorhini, Humans, Limbic System, Mammillary Bodies, Primates, Strepsirhini, Thalamus

Abstract:

Major paradigms about human evolution stress the increase of cognitive capabilities, while considering our emotional and limbic systems to be relatively unchanged. Morphometric analyses of two limbic structures, the anterior thalamic nuclei (AP) and the medial mamillary bodies (MB), in 27 primate species show, however, that: human nuclei are as large as MB or larger AP than differences in anthropoid brain sizes predict; and prosimians and anthropoid patterns differ.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3080202?dopt=Abstract

Alternate Journal: Brain Res.

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