What is the pleasure center and where is it located in the body? Detailed answer

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What is the pleasure center and where is it located in the body?

One of the parts of the brain is the hypothalamus, which is a part of the diencephalon and located under the visual tubercles (thalamus).

The hypothalamus, in which the centers of the autonomic nervous system are located, regulates metabolism, the activity of the cardiovascular, digestive, excretory systems and endocrine glands, the mechanisms of sleep and wakefulness, and links the nervous and endocrine systems.

In the middle of the twentieth century, another, somewhat unexpected function of the hypothalamus was discovered. It turned out that there is a special area in it, during the stimulation of which the animal experiences a feeling of great pleasure - the so-called pleasure center.

If a rat is placed in the center of pleasure with electrodes that it can close itself, the animal quickly learns to close them (to give itself pleasure) and does this at a frequency of up to 8 thousand times per hour for several hours and even days, interrupted only by eating, sexual contacts and sleep. Apparently, everything pleasant that we experience in life is pleasant insofar as it excites the pleasure center. Its direct artificial stimulation may well replace almost all life's pleasures.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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