“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 are some tantalizing initial clues. Recall that twenty-four hours after a single exposure to cocaine, the excitatory glutamate-using synapses recived by VTA dopamine neurons express LTP. This change, which will result in greater dopamine release in… — David J. Linden Copy Share
“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
