Word: limbic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cultural defoliation--an attempt to destroy "liberal" habitat. If there was any doubt about its momentum, the young velociraptors in Congress--freshman ideologues, mostly, squeaking with Newtish zeal--buried it three weeks ago. These boys and girls aren't even cultural Neanderthals. They're Jurassic. On culture, the limbic forebrain can hold one sound bite at a time, courtesy of Rush Limbaugh or George Will. PBS? "Elitist welfare for the rich." The NEA? "State-subsidized porn." The NEH? "P.c. revisionist history." By a vote of 230 to 194, driven by a rump of dozens of junior members, the House voted...
...that, over the course of 4,000 years of experiment and repetition, warmaking has become a habit." Whether it is a filthy habit or, as sometimes happens, a dirty necessity, war obviously has transcendent excitements, temptations and mysteries. And it is the oldest drama: the epic of the limbic system...
Schizophrenia is a genetically influenced mental illness involving hallucinations, delusions, depression and disorderly thinking. No one knows what causes it, but the pathology involves misfiring neurotransmissions originating in the brain's limbic system, where movement and thought are first processed, then sent to the frontal lobes, where decision-making begins. Patients commonly imagine that people on television and in magazines are talking to them directly and personally. They become antisocial and depressed and hear aggressive voices that can sometimes command them to commit suicide -- or, on rare occasions, to kill someone. Pincus is convinced that homicidal violence only occurs when...
...guide patients into a hypnotic state by having them focus on a particular mental image, a soothing voice or an object (yup, a swinging watch on a chain will do the trick). Once the patient is there, habitual patterns of thought are temporarily suspended. One theory is that the limbic system -- the brain region linked to emotion and involuntary responses like blood pressure -- is stimulated under hypnosis and rendered capable of reacting to external suggestions. An estimated 1 in 10 people, however, is not suggestible...
Halcion acts on the brain's limbic system, which plays a major role in the genesis of sleep and the emotions. Because it lasts in the body only a matter of hours, it can trigger a boomerang effect, unleashing the very anxiety it was meant to tame. Adverse reactions become more common the higher the dose. Doses of as much as 1.0 mg were once prescribed in Europe, but the recommended dose is now only 0.25 mg. In most cases where Halcion has allegedly been linked to violent behavior, the people took more than is deemed safe, had been drinking...