The pleasure center : trust your animal instincts / Morten L. Kringelbach.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

vii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

The challenge: know thyself? -- Decisions : social intelligence in the world -- Consciousness : artificial pleasures and desires in other bodies? -- Emotions : happiness, fear, and trembling -- Sensation : making sense -- Memories : to forget is to remember -- Learning : emotions and thoughts -- Madness : malignant desires -- Stimulants : pain and pleasure, food and drugs -- Sex : reproducing love -- Future considerations : where do we go from here?.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-273) and index.

Translated from the Danish.