- amygdala: regulation of emotion and memory
- cingulate gyrus: emotion/autonomic functions
- fornix: memory regulation
- hippocampus: important role in learning and memory
- hypothalamus: endocrine and autonomic functions and homeostasis
- limbic system: motivational drive and emotional behavior (fight or flight, feeding, sex, emotions); memory processing and relating to the environment
- memory: mammillary body
- olfactory association cortex: appreciation of olfactory stimuli - projects to hippocampus for memory recall