Brain Mind Sex Emotion all Fill Her Love Bucket

Buried within the depths of the cerebrum are several large aggregates of limbic structures and nuclei which are preeminent in the control and mediation of memory, emotion, learning, dreaming, attention, and arousal, and the perception and expression of emotional, motivational, sexual, and social behavior including the formation of loving attachments.

The video is almost one hour: 53:31

http://brainmind.com/LimbicOverview.html

Abridged Excerpts:

• The limbic system controls the capacity to experience love and sorrow, and governs basic needs such as hunger and thirst.
• The olfactory-derived limbic structures, such as the amygdala, continue to maintain massive interconnections with almost all regions of the neocortex (Sherrie Rose editor’s note: Perhaps that is why the science of sex, smell and pheromones is so fascinating. The smell of pheromones bypasses the rational brain, registers in the limbic system and activates attraction and sex.)
• Over the course of evolution a new brain (neocortex) has developed, Homo sapiens sapiens (“the wise may who knows he is wise”) remains a creature of emotion.
• Emotion is a potentially powerful overwhelming force that warrants and yet resists control– as something irrational that can happen to a someone (“you make me so angry”) and which can temporarily hijack, overwhelm, and snuff out the “rational mind.”
• The hypothalamus regulates internal homeostasis including the experience of hunger and thirst, can trigger rudimentary sexual behaviors or generate feelings of extreme rage or pleasure.
• The amygdala has been implicated in the generation of the most rudimentary and the most profound of human emotions, including fear, sexual desire, rage, religious ecstasy, or at a more basic level, determining if something might be good to eat.
• The amygdala is implicated in the seeking of loving attachments and the formation of long term emotional memories. The amygdala promotes indiscriminate contact seeking, and perhaps promiscuous sexual activity. 
• Specifically, the septal nuclei inhibits these indiscriminate tendencies and assists in the formation of selective and more enduring emotional attachments.
• The amygdala’s involvement in all aspects of emotion and sexual functioning, including associated memories, such as the production of overwhelming fear as well as bizarre and dream-like mental phenomenon.