Word: paleocortex
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...generally agreed is that the most primitive emotions and reactions, such as hunger and sex drives, are experienced in the hypothalamus (see diagram). In general, the higher the functions, the higher their seats in the brain-rising through the thalami and their branches, and the basal ganglia, to the paleocortex ("old bark"), which man shares with the higher animals...
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