A leading brain scientist's look at the neurobiology of pleasure-and how pleasures can become addictions.
Whether eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex, or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. In The Compass of Pleasure Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level: in our brain.
As he did in his award-winning book, The Accidental Mind, Linden combines cutting-edge science with entertaining anecdotes to illuminate the source of the behaviors that can lead us to ecstasy but that can easily become compulsive. Why are drugs like nicotine and heroin addictive while LSD is not? Why has the search for safe appetite suppressants been such a disappointment? The Compass of Pleasure concludes with a provocative consideration of pleasure in the future, when it may be possible to activate our pleasure circuits at will and in entirely novel patterns.
David J. Linden is a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. The author of more than ninety scientific papers, he also serves as the editor in chief of The Journal of Neurphysiology. His work has received awards from the Sloan, McKnight and Klingenstein Foundations as well as those of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Society for Neuroscience.
by/渔歌 中世纪的西方世界强调禁欲,人们生活在宗教的压制之下。相比之下,处在东方的中国,自南宋以后,也逐渐对欲望尤其是性欲战战兢兢。到了清代,封建社会的伦理纲常更是进一步的强调修身节制。 与之相反,古希腊的众神从未停止过对欲望的追求和满足。以至于赫拉难免防着...
评分先说说封面 直到读完,我都以为封面画的是小脑突触或是蛇头什么的抽象画。放大图片,才发现是一圈大腿和颜色近似的几个关键词。不知道为什么不使用原版封面,几个关键词清楚明了。所以大家不用依据封面判断本书。 如何阅读 本文是对《愉悦回路》的目录总结,也许每一个下一本书...
评分通过阅读能够了解,很多能让我们感到快乐的事情是如何在大脑中经过复杂的化学作用最终输出快乐的。而且每一个愉悦回路都是不断自我更新的系统,这个原理建立在大脑本就是用进废退的器官的基础之上,所以,让我们快乐的事情越来越少,因为以往能让我们快乐的事情在周而复始之后...
评分这本书的原名非常长,叫做:the compass of pleasure: how our brain make fatty foods, orgasm, exercise, marijuana, generosity, vodka, learning, and gambling feel so good. 我更喜欢原意:快乐的指南针。题目中的几个关键词概括了全书的内涵,即大脑、食物、赌博以及某...
评分坦白讲,我没有看懂这本所谓的科普书在讲些什么,一如读不懂休谟的《人性论》或康德的《纯粹理性批判》,所以读后最大的感受,反而在书外,那就是丫的湛庐文化太会营销了,封面上宣传的“我们为什么会感到快乐?为什么戒酒、戒毒、戒赌这么难?为什么有些人抵抗不了性的诱惑?...
非常好,第二、第四章尤佳
评分非常好,第二、第四章尤佳
评分对药品、性、食物、慈善等各种可令人上瘾的事务进行了神经层面的解释,值得一看
评分最有意思的教材
评分basically a book-length literature review. still fun to read
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