In The Brain, Your Pain Is My Gain
Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 06:10
in Health & Medicine
If you're thirsty and you drink, your brain feels pleasure. You feel this same pleasure, borne of satisfying a physical need, when someone you envy is brought low. We call this feeling schadenfreude, but researchers at the National Institute of Radiology in Japan call it dopamine release in the ventral striatum. read more