“Experiements that have been devised to inflict even mild social pain (like exclusion form a group task or betrayal by a partner in a gambling game) have demonstrated significant activation of the sinula and the anterior cingulate cortex. Emotional pain… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
“How does stress influence the midbrain pleasure circuit (or the feeding control circuits)? The short answer is that we don't really know. However, there… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
“Clearly, Siberian reindeer are not fighting over drugged urine for its nutrative value.” — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
“Experiements that have been devised to inflict even mild social pain (like exclusion form a group task or betrayal by a partner in a… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
“On average, dopamine receptor density is reduced in the VTA target regions of obese subjects as compared with those lean subjects (a characteristic that… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
“The head/heart duality is a well-known cultural phenomenon. In everyday speech we use "heart" as a shorthand to refer to our emotional state or… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
“Human sexual and social behavior shares some similaries with that of rodents, but has some important differences as well. It shows much greater variability… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
“Male Amazon river dolphins will even insert thier penises in each other's blowholes in the only known example of nasal sex.* *I refuse to… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
