The essence of happiness

sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)

Neuroscientists have gained an insight into how the brain comes to take pleasure in abstract rewards. Animals, they suggest, have a reward system that focuses on specific outcomes—what an action would achieve—which in turn plugs into a more general system that lets us know what feels good.

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