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Are you a Seekaholic?

The following Salon article raises interesting questions regarding our brain’s insatiable need for stimulation. Are we hard-wired to seek?
In 1954, psychologist James Olds and his team were working in a laboratory at McGill University, studying how rats learned. They would stick an electrode in a rat’s brain and, whenever the rat went to a particular [...]