Controversial (for other reasons) neuroscientist Robert Heath found long ago that given the option to self stimulate different brain areas to experience different feelings most people opt to stimulate areas that evoke feelings of mild frustration & anger. Arousal is reinforcing.
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What’s remarkable is they preferred this feeling over sexual arousal, happiness, laughter, drunkenness. Arousal with mild frustration in anger is indeed a drug. It’s just that we make it ourselves. Watch your behavior. Chances are you’re hooked.
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And for you aficionados, the midline thalamus was the hub for this. My friends who are neurosurgeon tell me they observed this from time to time and experiments where they are hunting for epilepsy foci.
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@hubermanlab True, midline thalamus regulates arousal by modulating prefrontal-limbic circuits.
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@hubermanlab I thought the original albeit controversial observation by Heath was based off of septal stimulation ?
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