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Pleasure Centers in the Brain

Rats can be made to gratify the drives of hunger, thirst and sex by self-stimulation of their brains with electricity. It appears that motivation, like sensation, has local centers in the brain

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 195 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “Pleasure Centers in the Brain” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 195 No. 4 (), p. 105
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1056-105