The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good Linden David J.Paperback

In this work, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist takes a look at the neurobiology of pleasure--and how pleasures can become addictions. Linden combines cutting-edge science with entertaining anecdotes to illuminate the source of the behaviors that can lead us to ecstasy but that can easily become compulsive.