Pleasure
Subtitle: how our brains make junk food, exercise, marijuana, generosity, and gambling feel so good
By: David J. Linden
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Richmond
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781851688975
Subjects: Pleasure; Neurobiology; Compulsive behavior; Health and Fitness
Description: Award-winning neuroscientist David Linden shows how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level, in our brains, and why ecstatic activities can easily become addictive. On this trip into cutting-edge science, he explores why nicotine and heroine are addictive while LSD is not; why the search for a safe appetitie suppressant has failed; if sex can be addicitve; and if we might someday control the part of the brain that makes us addicted in the first place.