The place where it is having its most profound effect is in the brain's emotional core the limbic system.
These are loosely grouped into the limbic system and the basal ganglia, although not everyone agrees what is what.
One drug currently available, called Lotronex, affects the limbic system and has worked more successfully in women than men.
According to Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership, our emotions are physiologically part of our limbic system.
The researchers hypothesized that if the stimulation to the limbic system were unpleasant, the rats would stay away from that part of the cage.
If you desire to control the person in whom I reside, I and the rest of the limbic system are your single best allies.
It is the limbic system, basal ganglia and cerebrum that do the interesting stuff that distinguishes mammalian brains from those of their reptilian ancestors.
In their experiments, an electrical current was sent to the limbic system of a rat's brain whenever it moved to a certain area of its cage.
These blindingly fast decisions occur in the limbic system and happen long before the more conscious part of the brain processes the data and reaches a conclusion.
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The same people who became very good at manipulating me, also tended to be very good at stimulating some of the other parts of the limbic system, such as pleasure centers.
The consonant music, by contrast, stimulated parts of the limbic system associated with pleasure, and the subjects' feelings were incontestably positive a neurological affirmation of the opinions of those who dislike Schoenberg's compositions.
It is surely no coincidence that much of the activity Dr Okubo found is in that characteristically human part of the brain, the enlarged cerebral cortex, rather than in the limbic system.
One of serotonin's jobs is to show growing nerve cells how they should connect from the frontal cortex, where reasoning takes place, to the limbic system, the seat of many emotional responses.
The limbic system, in particular the amygdala (an almond shaped region that is located just in front of the hippocampus), is the first part of the brain to receive emotional information and react to it.
Ancient peoples tended to locate us, that is the structures which make up the limbic system, in the stomach, because the hormonal responses we trigger divert resources away from the digestive system, which is not critical in an emergency, towards the muscles used to attack or run away.
That conflicts not only with the limbic-system theory but also with earlier reports of a so-called God Spot that derived partly from work conducted on epileptics.
Generally, acts of self disclosure were accompanied by spurts of heightened activity in brain regions belonging to the meso-limbic dopamine system, which is associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from food, money or sex.
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