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Limbic System ..
Limbic System ..
Jayita Biswas
PGT,Department of Psychiatry
RGKMCH
OVERVIEW
● Mammillary
bodies,dorsomedial
nucleus of thalamus
and hypothalamus
affected
● Recent memory
characteristically
disturbed than remote
memory
● Immediate recall
usually reserved
LIMBIC NEUROMODULATION
ADDICTION
● Nucleus accumbens
and cingulate gyrus
and the other nuclei
in the Limbic reward
network may be
potential target for
Neuromodulation for
drug addiction
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
● AMYGD
ALA
targeted
for DBS
MEMORY
● Anterior nucleus of thalamus -Target of DBS in the treatment
of intractable epilepsy