How to Use limbic in a Sentence

limbic

adjective

• The nail in the foot is the film’s iconic moment of limbic horror.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021
• The answer is that the narrative design largely gets in the way of the limbic disturbances of the originals.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• So much of the place’s history has left with its late inhabitants or is tucked away in the recesses of Ethel Kennedy’s limbic system.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 23 Aug. 2017
• This new general biology included a new brain structure atop the brainstem called the limbic brain.
  — Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The first abnormality appears in the limbic system, the set of brain structures involved in, among other things, processing emotions.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• The limbic system, the center for our emotions, begins to show much higher activity, while the frontal lobes, which might ordinarily calm people, start to shut down.
  — Chris Nashawaty, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2012
• Female brains also showed more blood flow in the limbic region, which controls basic functions like hunger and thirst but is also thought to influence parenting and attachment.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 8 Aug. 2017
• There is a sort of limbic satisfaction in rubbing a loser’s nose in defeat, especially after a bitter contest.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2020
• Humans naturally gravitate towards things that light up the limbic regions of our brains, the deep system wired for survival and pleasure motivation.
  — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2019
• In autoimmune limbic encephalitis, certain antibodies, the foot soldiers of the immune system, mistakenly attack parts of the brain.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• The Orexin system regulates neuronal limbic circuits implicated in depression, and trials of Orexin 2 receptor antagonists are well underway.
  — Husseini Manji, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2021

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