{"id":570,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:58:31","slug":"limbics-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Limbic&#8217;s Interface?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The limbic brain is primarily concerned with self-preservation and species-preservation and controls most of the <a href=\"?p=506\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">ANS<\/span><\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> It\u2019s involved with activities related to food, sex, emotional bonding, and the expression and mediation of emotions and feelings, such as motivation, play, and sense of self.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> It is the interface between emotional states and memories of physical stimuli, hormones, &#8220;Action or No-Action&#8221; responses, sexual arousal, circadian rhythms, etc.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The limbic system gets &#8220;duped&#8221; when you get addicted to hard drugs. Since the addiction activities take place in the lower brain section, you cannot rationalize their effects.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The nucleus accumbens plays a role in sexual arousal and the &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">High<\/span>&#8221; derived from certain recreational drugs. Whatever stimulates it more, will have primacy over food or sex. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong>Its main components are:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><a style=\"color: #ffd700;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-the-thalamus.htm\"><strong>thalamus<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ffd700;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-the-amygdala.htm\">amygdala<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><a style=\"color: #ffd700;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-the-hippocampus.htm\"><strong>hippocampus<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><a style=\"color: #ffd700;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-the-hypothalamus.htm\"><strong>hypothalamus<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ffd700;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pineal_gland\">pineal gland<\/a>, <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ffd700;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pituitary_gland\">pituitary gland<\/a>,<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ffd700;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nucleus_accumbens\">nucleus accumbens<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 265px; height: 241px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Human-brain.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=571\"><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 is primarily concerned with self-preservation and species-preservation and controls most of the ANS. It\u2019s involved with activities related to food, sex, emotional bonding, and the expression and mediation of emotions and feelings, such as motivation, play, and sense of self. It is the interface between emotional states and memories of physical stimuli,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1585,"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-570","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\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9300,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/9300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}