What part of the brain provides the emotional response to pain?
A)Limbic system
B)Parietal lobe
C)Thalamus
D)Hypothalamus

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The limbic and reticular tracts are involved in alerting the body to danger, initiating arousal of the organism, and emotionally processing the perceived afferent signals, not just as stimuli, but also as pain. This system is in the anterior temporal lobe, not the parietal lobe. The thalamus is the major relay station of sensory information. The hypothalamus, brainstem, and basal forebrain are involved in promoting wakefulness.

What Part of the Brain Provides the Emotional Response to Pain