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How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good
Viking Adult
April 2011
On Sale: April 14, 2011
240 pages
ISBN: 0670022586
EAN: 9780670022588
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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