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===Limbic system===

{{details|topic=the limbic system|Limbic system}}

The [[limbic system]] is a group of unique brain areas that work together in many interrelated processes involved in emotion, motivation, learning and memory. Current thinking indicates that the limbic system shares anatomy with a component of the neostriatum already credited with the major task of controlling procedural memory. Once thought to be functionally separate, this vital section of the brain found on the striatum's back border has only recently been linked to memory and is now being called the marginal division zone (MrD).<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Shu | first1 = S.Y. | last2 = Bao | first2 = X.M. | last3 = Li | first3 = S.X. | last4 = Chan | first4 = W.Y. | last5 = Yew | first5 = D. | year = 2000 | title = A New Subdivision, Marginal Division, in the Neostriatum of the Monkey Brain | url = | journal = Biomedical and Life Sciences | volume = 25 | issue = 2| pagepages = 555231–7 | doi = 10.1023/a:1007523520251 | pmid = 10786707 }}</ref> A special membrane protein associated with the limbic system is said to concentrate in related structures and to travel towards the basal nuclei. To put things simply, the activation of brain regions that work together during procedural memory can be followed because of this limbic system associated membrane protein and its application in molecular and [[immunohistochemistry]] research.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Yun Shu | first1 = Si | last2 = Min Bao | first2 = Xin | last3 = Ning | first3 = Qun | last4 = Ming Wu | first4 = Yong | last5 = Wang | first5 = Jun | last6 = Leonard | first6 = Brian E. | year = 2003 | title = New component of the limbic system; Marginal division of the neostriatum that links the limbic system to the basal nucleus of Meynert | url = | journal = Journal of Neuroscience Research | volume = 71 | issue = 5| pages = 751–757 | doi=10.1002/jnr.10518| pmid = 12584733 }}</ref>

==Physiology==