The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Human brain self-stimulation studies published @ScienceMagazine in 1960s revealed that, given a choice of stimulating brain areas for sexual arousal, emotional joy, drunkenness, etc. people far prefer to self-stimulate brain areas that promote mild anger and frustration.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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historically it seemed that there was a bit more permission for people to probe around in the human brain I I've um sometimes refer the podcast to some of these papers that were done uh allowing patients to self-stimulate in the brain these are work done in the in the 60s and now his name Escapes Me Robert um anyway there's a couple papers published in science allowing patients to stimulate a couple different brain areas asking which ones they preferred and I was always shocked and slightly intrigued by the fact that the the brain area that all three of these patients who I don't think had any syndromes I think they volunteered for these experiments I don't think you could do this anymore