Sentence examples for primal reward from inspiring English sources

Food and sex are lodged in the most primal reward centers of the brain.

Upon climax, your bloodstream is treated to an intoxicating cocktail of prolactin, oxytocin (aka cuddle time), phenethylamine (levels of this love and chocolate chemical peak at orgasm), and dopamine (care of primal reward system for all around opiate-induced bliss).

That one — quiver on quiver on quiver — was almost impossible to swallow, but it rewarded you with a briny, primal rush.

It activates a primal impulse in our brains to seek out rewards.

As Burnham and Phelan explain in Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts, our environment has changed, leaving our primitive, subconscious reward circuitry very vulnerable.

When the stimulus properties conflict with internal expectancy, violations may register in deep primal structures, such as the amygdala and ventral striatum, that mediate emotion, arousal, motivation, and reward.

Get primal.

Primal, atavistic.

Very primal".

The stakes are primal.

Primal Scream.