Subserve in a sentence as a verb

Wake up, there's no need for you to subserve yourself to these malpractices.

Functional brain imaging has identified distinct brain networks that subserve distinct psychological functions.

I'd have gone with "supports", maybe, but the connotation is different; "subserves" says self-smelling is a major purpose of self-face-touching, "supports" suggests the association may be coincidental.

Between the context and the similarity with the adjective "subservient", "subserves" proved trivial to parse, and I haven't yet been able to come up with another expression of the same concept that is also as concise.

The studies suggest that when emotional experience occurred within the context of a demanding task situation, yoga practitioners appeared to resolve emotional interference via recruitment of regions of the cortex that subserve cognitive control.

Subserve definitions

verb

be helpful or useful