These are loosely grouped into the limbic system and the basal ganglia, although not everyone agrees what is what.

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One drug currently available, called Lotronex, affects the limbic system and has worked more successfully in women than men.

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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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It is the limbic system, basal ganglia and cerebrum that do the interesting stuff that distinguishes mammalian brains from those of their reptilian ancestors.

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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.

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If you desire to control the person in whom I reside, I and the rest of the limbic system are your single best allies.

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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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According to Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership, our emotions are physiologically part of our limbic system.

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