Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Junk Food, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, and Gambling Feel So Good
Eating, having sex, doing a good deed - the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive in all humans. In this ground breaking study, award winning neuroscientist David J. Linden shows how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level: in our brain.
Eating, having sex, doing a good deed - the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive in all humans. In this ground breaking study, award winning neuroscientist David J. Linden shows how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level: in our brain.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781851688241 (1851688242)
Publish date: May 1st 2011
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Science,
Biology,
Health,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Medicine,
Neuroscience,
Brain
This book was mostly about addiction, and talked a lot about drugs. I was hoping more time would be spent discussing how pleasure functions in a healthy, positive way, and then also learning about the flip side. It certainly had a few interesting insights about addiction, but the interesting bits ...
A nice pop-but-somewhat-technical book on dopamine. I found it easy to follow, but it is neurochemically focused and probably requires some familiarity with brain function.
I should have been a neuroscientist. I love this stuff so much! Linden does a great job here of explaining without either oversimplifying or obfuscating. I learned a lot about the pleasure circuitry of the brain. Perhaps my favorite bit was near the end, where Linden takes on Kurzweil's singularity ...
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