http://mindhacks.com/2012/12/21/wanting-vs-liking/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2012/12/21/wanting-vs-liking/#comment-43777 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 20:26:44 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=25223#comment-43777 Very interesting as always! Hope you’re having a good Christmas and enjoying all the things you’re wanting!

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2012/12/21/wanting-vs-liking/#comment-43677 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:56:20 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=25223#comment-43677 How interesting, thanks for this enlightening article. So people might want to watch hours of tv despite declining enjoyment. I wonder if this is why people get the impression that it’s “addictive”.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2012/12/21/wanting-vs-liking/#comment-43674 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:38:19 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=25223#comment-43674 I find that it is the salt on crisps and other salty snacks that is the culprit – not the vehicle for the salt!

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2012/12/21/wanting-vs-liking/#comment-43617 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:39:21 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=25223#comment-43617 Great post, and nice Christmas take on the pleasure principle. However, I take issue with separating these two circuits so definitively. The intra-cranial self-stimulation in the nucleus accumbens (as well as other areas in the mesolimbic circuity) is absolutely synapsing on the dopamine neurons there, and these in turn can excite the opioid neurons nearby. Saying that dopamine has no role in pleasure over-simplifies the matter and doesn’t take into account the decades of work done on reward-learning theory and dopamine’s crucial role in it.
(Sorry to be so picky, I realize this is just a short post!)

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