The pleasure center : trust your animal instincts / Morten L. Kringelbach.

  • Kringelbach, Morten L.
Date:
2009
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Physical description

vii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-273) and index.

Contents

The challenge: know thyself? -- Decisions : social intelligence in the world -- Consciousness : artificial pleasures and desires in other bodies? -- Emotions : happiness, fear, and trembling -- Sensation : making sense -- Memories : to forget is to remember -- Learning : emotions and thoughts -- Madness : malignant desires -- Stimulants : pain and pleasure, food and drugs -- Sex : reproducing love -- Future considerations : where do we go from here?.

Language note

Translated from the Danish.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    BF515 2009K58p
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0195322851
  • 9780195322859