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Cerebrospinal Fluid Research BioMed Central Review Open Access A temperament for learning: The limbic system and myelomeningocele Behroze Vachha*1,2 and Richard C Adams 1,2 Address: 1Pediatric Developmental Disabilities, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas, TX 75219, USA and 2Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75219, USA Email: Behroze Vachha* - behroze.vachha@; Richard C Adams - adamsr@ * Corresponding author Published: 10 December 2004 Received: 05 October 2004 Accepted: 10 December 2004 Cerebrospinal Fluid Research 2004, 1:6 doi:10.1186/1743-8454-1-6 This article is available from: /content/1/1/6 © 2004 Vachha and Adams; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This article was the winner of the triennial Casey Holter Memorial Prize awarded by the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida, 2004. Abstract This essay explores the link between the limbic/hypothalamic systems within the complex conditions of hydrocephalus and myelomeningocele. Acknowledging the neuroanatomical and neuroendocrine risks inherent in the developing brains of these individuals, we focus on the converging components of temperament, co