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At the critical stress level, when your limbic system cannot take it any more, it takes over.

However, the connections to the limbic system hinted at in this article are an interesting lead.

HN commentators are smart, but they are not above the effects of the limbic system, unfortunately.

In fact they totally lack a brain limbic system, and it is presumed they can't.

It gets mixed up with the limbic system and becomes a default assumption for everything.

Your limbic center wants that doughnut, no matter what that prudish frontal lobe says.

Nothing works like love/sex, which are evolutionary needs embedded into our limbic memory.

Sure, we know know exactly which stars are in quadrant x27b or where dopaminergic neurons connect in the limbic system.

Thing is, the limbic reward system can be pretty automatic, too.

I wonder when we will see technologies that help engage the prefrontal cortex while reduxing the influence of the limbic system.

We found that both disorders were associated with an hypo-perfusion in the capsulothalamic area, suggesting that the inflammatory process may in fact involve the limbic system and the thalamus.

Depression is atrophy of the limbic system.

This is fascinating because the cerebellum is part of the "reptilian brain", one of the three sections of the mammalian triune brain that include the limbic and neocortex as well.

Put in another way: even cursing that you might perceive as self-evidently "aggressive and rude" --in the limbic sense of the word-- might be perceived quite differently by someone from another culture.

"News is toxic to your body": The author cites a case study involving the limbic system that doesn't mention media or news at all.

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