Hunger, Thirst, Sex, and Sleep
How the Brain Controls Our Passions
Sensations of hunger, thirst, sexual attraction, and love can dominate our thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else, but until the last 10 years or so, the precise reasons why these passions arise have not been understood very well. We now know that these, and other drives like the urge to sleep, are controlled by a small portion of the brain called the hypothalamus. This book presents the latest information about how the brain controls our most basic drives. In a series of fascinating anecdotes, Young tells the tale of how scientists have discovered the role of the hypothalamus in our basic drives and in medical conditions in whi…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4422-1824-6
- EAN: 9781442218246
- Produktnummer: 20573908
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 268 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 268
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