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.
难得看一回纯科普读本。没有一般非虚构类的那种所谓结论。就是分析讲解一些科学实验和事实。而且难得的是翻译得还相当通俗易懂,可读性非常好。 做完笔记发现自己并没有把成瘾这件事的原因记录下来.... 凭印象,主要是多巴胺的回路,在某个大脑纹路产生电流快感,让你不间断的...
评分有没有想过,吃货们对美食的眷恋与宅男对电子游戏的着迷并没有本质上的区别,藏书爱好者,狂刷微博的年轻人,与那些药物成瘾患者其实也都差不多。因为,这一切都与我们脑中的“愉悦回路”有关。 有这样一个实验早已广为人知:大鼠为了获得电极刺激所带来的兴奋感,可以废寝忘食...
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 评分The problem with neuroscience is that it seems to deny the existence of free will. When all behaviors are traced back to neurons and cells, it becomes hard to believe in concepts such as will and self determination.
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basically a book-length literature review. still fun to read
评分最有意思的教材
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