Talk:Pleasure center

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[edit] Nothing quite matching the rat pleasure center in humans

The way I read the popular literature, nothing has been shown to produce great pleasure on electrical stimulation in the way that the rat pleasure center seems to in rats. And there has been plenty of opportunity to find such a center since brain stimulation is done to conscious humans during neurosurgery. The way this article reads, certain locations are associated to certain kinds of pleasure, but that's not the same as being the equivalent of the pleasure center in rats. Can anyone justify this analysis with a citation? Can someone with real knowledge in the field comment? The source cited for the human pleasure center doesn't convince me that there's a scientific consensus that we even have a pleasure center the way rats seem to.

Mark Foskey (talk) 00:51, 30 April 2008 (UTC)