{"id":510,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:49:03","slug":"limbic-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Limbic Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Limbic<\/span> Brain evolved about 150 million years ago in <a href=\"?p=992\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">birds<\/span><\/a> and mammals, and houses primarily the centers of emotion.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Together, their parts form a cap or limbus around the R-brain. Hence the name <em><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">limbic<\/span><\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Since it links emotions with behavior, it suppresses the R-brain with its habitual ways of responding.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">It contains both innate neural circuitry and circuitry that is modifiable by memories of new experiences.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/basal_ganglia+Limbic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=570\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Limbic Brain evolved about 150 million years ago in birds and mammals, and houses primarily the centers of emotion. Together, their parts form a cap or limbus around the R-brain. Hence the name limbic. Since it links emotions with behavior, it suppresses the R-brain with its habitual ways of responding. It contains both innate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9294,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/9294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}