Pleasure

How Our Brains Make Junk Food, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, and Gambling Feel So Good

von David J. Linden

256 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Oneworld Publications
• ISBN: 9781851688975
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2012
• Größe: 204 x 131 mm
• Verlag: Oneworld Publications IWUK