Quotes About The Limbic System

#1. Following a trauma at any age, there's a reduction in the number of neural pathways between the limbic system (pertaining to feelings) and the cortex system (managing thought and cognition). So after being traumatized, you're less aware of your feelings.

Doreen Virtue

#2. Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Jasper Fforde

#3. Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

Nancy Gibbs

#4. New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

Robert E. Ornstein

#5. The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

Robin Marantz Henig

#6. I function as an asterisk in the limbic system.

S. Kelley Harrell

#7. I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.

Michael J. Fox

#8. I apologize if my limbic system has misinterpreted your gesture of emotional support.

Neal Stephenson

#9. Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself ...

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

#10. The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

Alan Redpath

#11. Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

Jay Mohr

#12. The future of advertising is the Internet.

Bill Gates

#13. You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

Harold Ramis

#14. I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

Jodi Picoult

#15. Do dogs feel for humans something akin to religious ecstasy? What other strong or subtle emotions are felt by animals that do not communicate with us?

Carl Sagan

#16. Why are we so addicted to social media?
Because, our limbic system is craving for rewards, pleasure, acceptance and expansion through mind.

Saurabh Sharma

#17. Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. You'll feel afraid at times. You'll feel weak at times. But remember, fear and weakness are not your enemies. They are forms of evolutionary wisdom in the face of danger. Take some time to assess the situation and shake the weakness and fear off your limbic system.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.

Tian Dayton

#20. Freedom's chains are the hardest to break.

Marty Rubin