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The limbic circuit, or Papez circuit, is a loop involving several subcortical structures that are involved in memory and emotions. Information from the hippocampus projects via the fornix to the mammillary bodies, then to the anterior nucleus of the thalamus via the mammillothalamic tract, which in turn projects to the cingulate gyrus, and then back to the hippocampus (Fig. 11.1).
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Leo, J. (2022). Limbic Circuit and Lesions. In: Medical Neuroanatomy for the Boards and the Clinic. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88835-0_11
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