limbic

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Somewhere deep in the limbic system, a synapse fires like a flare, tracing the old circuitry of migration and memory — that annual pull toward the wide-open deserts of the American Southwest.

From Los Angeles Times

Even after her mother’s death in 2020 at 96, that censorious voice remained “embedded in my most primitive responses, in my very limbic system.”

From Los Angeles Times

It makes sense, as scent is processed by the limbic system, the part of the brain that handles emotion and memory.

From Los Angeles Times

Smell activates many parts of our brain, including our limbic system, which plays a key role in memory recall.

From Los Angeles Times

This innovative approach helped them pinpoint where these two systems interact in the brain -- specifically in a limbic region called the nucleus accumbens, which plays a key role in emotion, motivation, and reward processing.

From Science Daily