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Fever
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Need to detect
temperature changes and modulate the autonomic
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nervous system to
either retain or dissipate heat.
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Addiction
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Many
recreational drugs work through neural pathways involved in
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reward and
motivated behavior that form an important part of limbic
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system function.
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Anxiety Disorders
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Many anxiety
disorders, such as Panic Disorder and Post-traumatic
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stress disorder
have physiological symptoms mediated by the
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autonomic nervous
system and by the limbic system.
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Obesity.
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Feeding behavior
is in part controlled by the hypothalamus, and
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interactions
between limbic reward circuitry and the hypothalamus
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are important to
feeding behavior.
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