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how pleasure affects our brain

  • Written by James Kesby, Advance Queensland Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
how pleasure affects our brainIt's not just our taste buds thanking us when we give ourselves a sweet treat. Rakicevic Nenad/Unsplash

This is part of our series on Changing the Brain, about what’s happening in our brain in various mental states and how we can change it for the better and worse.


Every day we make a range of choices in the pursuit of pleasure: we do things...