Word: hypothalamus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sensory emotion occurs when a child gets angry at a chair against which he has bumped his knee. The sense impressions reach the hypothalamus, where they become an emotional process. It emerges from the hypothalamus through the mamillary body and passes to the cortex by way of the gyrus cinguli...
...mamillary body, a small spheroid organ which is one of the three principal parts of the hypothalamus. It lies at one corner of the hypothalamus and picks up impulses from the hypothalamus and transmits them...