How to Use limbic system in a Sentence

limbic system

noun

• One of the brain circuits that governs our response to danger is called the limbic system.
  — Anna Jankowska, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• At the same time, signals are sent to the part of the brain that deals with emotions (the limbic system).
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 4 Aug. 2022
• The lights in your limbic system are blinking on and off.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2021
• At the base of our brains, within the limbic system, is a primitive part called the amygdala.
  — Roberta Moore, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• Your limbic system is where tastes and odors are processed.
  — Outside Online, 30 Aug. 2019
• Just as there is a brain circuit for language, there’s one for emotion, called the limbic system.
  — Eliezer J. Sternberg, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2018
• The two most fascinating parts of the brain are the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, which is right behind it.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• Of the senses, smell alone has a direct line to our limbic system, the part of our mind that deals with emotions and memory.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2021
• There’s a part of the brain called the limbic system, and that’s the part of the brain where emotions like anger and affection are processed, as well as memory.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• Hecht saw changes in the parts of the limbic system and prefrontal cortex involved in emotions and social behavior.
  — Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
• Our sense of smell runs straight to our limbic system, the region in our brain that regulates emotions and memory.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
• But the movies of Godard’s that most strongly imprinted themselves on my limbic system are not all available to stream.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
• Dalton explains that the olfactory part of the brain is connected to the limbic system, which is where our emotions take place.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• The ventral striatum, located in the midbrain, is part of the limbic system and is linked to perceiving rewards and pleasure.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
• My heart leapt at the sight of this gorgeous wild creature – joy seeping into my limbic system, giving me an agreeable rush.
  — Bruce Beehler, The Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• Brain researchers have found that a happy ending triggers the limbic system, the brain's reward centre, to release dopamine.
  — Greg Orme, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Chemicals in the bloodstream can also signal the limbic system—a brain area that processes emotion and stress—to change our moods.
  — Martin Oeggerli, National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
• When treated with contempt, such as an eye roll, the limbic system of your brain responds and categorizes the other person as a threat.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2020
• The amygdala, a part of the limbic system, is involved with processing emotions, learning to avoid what might be harmful and to seek what might be beneficial.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• That scent information takes a direct line to the limbic system, which controls basic emotions.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
• The device vibrates gently behind your ears, which the company says activates the part of your brain that regulates emotions (the limbic system).
  — Gear Team, Wired, 14 Jan. 2021
• Sensory neurons deep in their noses signal the brain’s limbic system—a primitive part of the brain that regulates emotions and memory—to act.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 19 May 2020
• Our limbic system is relatively large and indeed humans are a very emotive species.
  — Emily Birch, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2018
• These networks include limbic system structures, such as the amygdala, which are important in our brain’s processing of emotions and stress.
  — Z Paige L’erario, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2023
• Out of our five senses, our sense of smell is the most closely connected with our memories, more specifically, our limbic system.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• In a cartoon full of big emotional wallops and tiny pings of heart-stopping narrative specificity, one moment in the new Netflix show City of Ghosts grabbed my limbic system the hardest.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 18 Mar. 2021
• My wife and daughter’s presence, however, had put me in a state of man-dad hypervigilance, with my limbic system on primordial high alert.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 2 July 2019
• Something felt unbalanced, as if a stealth assault had been made on the limbic system, the lacy cortical network that forms the architecture of our primal needs and emotions: pleasure, anger, fear.
  — Guy Trebay, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2018
• That study found changes in the limbic system and hippocampus of the brain, which oversees emotional and behavioral activities, as well as memory.
  — Alice Park, Time, 21 Nov. 2022
• These high-level cognitive and emotional functions were understood to reside in the cerebral cortex and limbic system.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024