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Pleasure : How Our Brains Make Junk Food Exercise Marijuana Generosity And Gambling Feel So Good
Paperback Edition: 1/2012
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.
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Featured in the March / April 2012 Popular Health newsletter.
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Pages : 256
Publisher : Oneworld Publications
Publication date : 2012-02
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Social Sciences, Biology, Psychology, Neurosciences, Psychology: Emotions