From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 10:51:41 MDT
gts wrote:
It's my contention here that socially constructive behaviors are among the
behaviors that stimulate the release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens of
homo sapiens.
### Actually, the areas recently implicated in the behaviors you mentioned
are mainly the prefrontal cortex and the anterior cingulate cortex. There is
no unique "reward center" in the human brain but rather a complex web of
structures involved in the management of many not directly related
behaviors. This is why the pleasure of drinking hot chocolate with cinnamon
is qualitatively different from the pleasure of understanding an abstruse
and profound scientific advancement.
But in general I agree with your post.
Rafal
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