rhinencephalon

In animal anatomy, the rhinencephalon is a part of the brain involved with olfaction.

The term rhinencephalon has been used to describe different structures at different points in time.

The development of the rhinencephalon varies among species.

As a neuroanatomist he made important contributions to the understanding of the limbic system and rhinencephalon.

Scientists call it the smell brain, or rhinencephalon.

The piriform cortex is part of the rhinencephalon situated in the telencephalon.

Indeed, the limbic system was called the "rhinencephalon," the smell-brain, by Herrick.

Autopsy revealed only a slight lesion on the rhinencephalon, which might have predated rapport.

The limbic system structures that are responsible for memory: the hippocampus and the amygdala are part of the rhinencephalon.

Prepyriform area (or prepiriform cortex) is a portion of the rhinencephalon consisting of paleocortex.

Although superficially continuous with the hippocampal gyrus, the uncus forms morphologically a part of the rhinencephalon.

The Corpus Striatum, Rhinencephalon, Connecting Fibers, and Diencephalon."

The hippocampus, amygdala, and septum make up the rhinencephalon (frontotemporal portion of the brain) or, as Jakob termed it, the visceral brain.

As such, the rhinencephalon includes the olfactory bulb, the olfactory tract, the olfactory tubercle and striae, the anterior olfactory nucleus and parts of the amygdala and the piriform cortex.

Some references classify other areas of the brain related to perception of smell as rhinencephalon, but areas of the human brain that receive fibers strictly from the olfactory bulb are limited to those of the paleopallium.