On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, David Hogberg went: > Just a little history: The original Olds & Milner (1954) findings did > involve electrical stiulation of the septal region/septal nuclei which > rats preferred to access to conventional/biological rewards. It was *a* > so-called pleasure center, one of a large number of them. FWIW, Olds and > one of his graduate students, David Margules, systematically identified > a number of identical feeding and pleasure areas in a _Science_ paper > ca. 1965.
Robert Heath, at Tulane, provided some of the most direct evidence that the septal region is a "pleasure center" in humans (Heath, 1972; Moan & Heath, 1972). But it's hard to say whether he was really looking at the septal nuclei or at the nucleus accumbens. Roy Wise (who works in my building) told me a few months ago that Heath had once said matter-of-factly to him: "When I was stimulating the septum...well, _now_ you'd call it the _nucleus accumbens_..." So I find myself in a state of Schrodingerian uncertainty about what was being stimulated. --David Heath RG. Pleasure and brain activity in man. Deep and surface electroencephalograms during orgasm. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 154(1): 3-18, Jan 1972. Moan, Charles E; Heath, Robert G. Septal stimulation for the initiation of heterosexual behavior in a homosexual male. Journal of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry 3(1): 23-30, Mar 1972. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
