Pleasure
How Our Brains Make Junk Food, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, and Gambling Feel So Good
Will be published approx. on 1. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-85168-824-1 (ISBN)
Description
Award-winning neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how new research has deciphered how and when pleasure takes control of the brain - and when it won't let go. He illuminates how behaviours that lead us to ecstasy can just as easily become compulsive: why are nicotine and heroin addictive while LSD is not? why has the search for safe appetite suppressants failed? This eminently enjoyable and provocative book delves beyond what we like into why we can't stop ourselves from liking it - even when we think we can.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85168-824-1 (9781851688241)
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Person
David J. Linden is Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Maryland, USA. The author of more than ninety scientific papers and the acclaimed book The Accidental Mind, he also serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology.