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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·September 18, 2022·7 min read

          Cannabis Users No Less Likely to Be Motivated or Able to Enjoy Life’s Pleasure

          Cannabis users show no difference in motivation for rewards, pleasure from rewards, or the brain's response to reward-seeking than non-cannabis users.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·May 11, 2022·3 min read

          Motivation/Pleasure Deficits, Not Expression Impairments, Contribute to Social Dysfunction in Schizophrenia Patients

          Amotivation and anhedonia rather than expressive dysfunction play a critical role in determining social functioning in those with schizophrenia.
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          Neuroscience
          ·April 14, 2021·6 min read

          Women Describe Specific Techniques to Increase Their Own Pleasure

          Survey study identifies four main techniques women feel enhance their sexual pleasure. Researchers say understanding the dynamics of pleasure and satisfaction experienced during sexual encounters is critical to good sexual health overall.
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          FeaturedNeurologyNeurosciencePsychology
          ·April 12, 2021·5 min read

          Profound Loss of Pleasure Related to Early-Onset Dementia

          Study links anhedonia, or the loss of pleasure, to the early onset of frontotemporal dementia. Neuroimaging revealed symptoms of anhedonia were marked by atrophy in the frontal and striatal brain areas of those with FTD.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
          ·November 3, 2020·5 min read

          Your Favorite Music Can Send Your Brain Into a Pleasure Overload

          Do you experience the chills when you hear your favorite song? Researchers used EEG to map brain activity while people listened to their favorite tunes. Findings reveal specific brain areas work together to process music, triggering the reward system and increasing dopamine release.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·January 18, 2020·2 min read

          Music helps researchers find link between prediction and pleasure

          Exposing subjects to music composed in an unfamiliar scale, researchers test whether reward can be derived solely from newly formed predictions.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·December 31, 2019·3 min read

          How the brain balances pleasure and pain

          Different classes of neurons in the ventral pallidum control positive and negative motivations, sending opposing signals along a shared motivation-processing circuit.
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          FeaturedGeneticsNeurosciencePsychology
          ·August 8, 2019·4 min read

          Genetic variation contributes to individual differences in pleasure

          What we find pleasurable may be down to our genetics. Researchers found nucleus accumbens activation and physical anhedonia were influenced by shared genes. The experience of pleasure and physical anhedonia also appear to share some of the same genes.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·December 10, 2018·6 min read

          Dopamine’s Yin-Yang Personality: It’s an Upper and a Downer

          Researchers shed light on the dual nature of dopamine, as a neurotransmitter that makes us seek pleasure and also reinforces avoidance of pain.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
          ·December 4, 2018·6 min read

          New Insights Into Loss of Pleasure in Depression

          A new study reveals a brain region that contributes to anhedonia, the loss of pleasure, in those with depression. The study also shows how ketamine acts on this brain region, explaining why the drug appears to be so effective at treating anhedonia.
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          FeaturedPsychology
          ·August 21, 2018·3 min read

          Beauty is Simpler, and Less Special, Than We Realize

          Analyzing the work of great philosophers and recent neuroscience research, researchers conclude certain simple features, such as symmetry and roundness, make things more attractive to us.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·April 29, 2018·4 min read

          How Pleasure Affects Our Brains

          A new article looks at the neuroscience of pleasure and considers why, in the pursuit of pleasure, we embark in some actions which are detrimental to our well being.
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