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.
追求快乐是人类与生俱来的一种本能! 追求快乐的生物学基础:大脑愉悦回路,两个主要单位:(1)内侧前脑束(一束神经元) (2)多巴胺(一种神经递质,主要与高兴有关,起奖赏功能) 人为激活愉悦回路的两种方式:(1)植入电极操控(对正常人没有应用,道德上不太允许) (2...
評分作者讲述了不少关于大脑内部与愉悦有关的科学研究成果,可能是本书打分不高的原因。在大脑功能上提醒我还有欲望这个变量,欲望的产生显然是有着坚实的生物进化基础的。宗教上所谓消除欲望的想法对大多数人而言是不现实的,也从另一方面揭示了减肥有多难。当人的体重明显减少的...
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评分非常好,第二、第四章尤佳
评分最有意思的教材
评分沒看完……作者開頭說好的少用專業名詞盡量通俗易懂呢?VTA LTP LTD LSD都是些什麼鬼?廢話好多故事沒完沒瞭。總之就是彆碰毒品,你的意誌力戰勝不瞭大腦。
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