The Basal Ganglia in relation to your health!

The Basal Ganglia is a system in your brain responsible for integrating your feelings and translating them into actions, shifting and smoothing your motor behavior, setting the body's idle speed or anxiety level, modulating motivation and driving feelings of pleasure and ecstasy.

As mentioned in the Deep Limbic system chapter what you eat has an important effect on how you feel. If your symptoms reflect heightened basal ganglia activity and anxiety, you'll do better with a balanced diet that does not allow you to get too hungry during the day. Hypoglycemic episodes make anxiety much worse. If you have low basal ganglia activity and low motivation, you will likely do better with a high protein, low-carbohydrate diet to give yourself more energy during the day.
Some herbal suggestions suck as kava extract and valerian root have a calming effect on the basal ganglia. Vitamin B in doses of 100 to 400 milligrams are also helpful (if you take vitamin B it is also important to take a B Complex supplement as well.