Abstract
This chapter focuses on the emotional motor system. It also discusses the somatic motor system in order to point out the similarities and differences between the two systems. The idea of the existence of an emotional motor system is primarily based on anatomical organization. The pathways of the somatic and emotional motor system are always separate until their termination on premotor interneurons or motoneurons. The function of the somatic and emotional motor system pathways is different. The emotional motor pathways play a role in basic survival behavior. The somatic or voluntary motor system, and especially its cortical parts, starts operating only after a relatively long time of processing environmental data, combined with information from the extensive memory banks in the various regions around the primary cortices. Moreover, the behavioral differences between animals and humans are not located in the emotional, but in the somatic motor system, which, as pointed out earlier, is nothing more than a tool of the emotional, or limbic system to fulfill its needs. In that respect, humans differ only slightly from other animals.
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