Which structure regulates bodily drives, such as hunger, thirst, and sexual response, and body conditions, such as body temperature and circadian rhythms, and plays a key role in our emotional reactions?

a. amygdala
b. pituitary gland
c. adrenal gland
d. hypothalamus


D

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