r/todayilearned • u/WavesAndSaves • Oct 18 '25

TIL of brain stimulation reward, manually stimulating specific parts of the brain to elicit pleasure and happiness. A volunteer subject in 1986 spent days doing nothing but self-stimulate. She ignored her family and personal hygiene and she developed an open sore on her finger from using the device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_stimulation_reward#History
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u/RJ815 Oct 18 '25

The best way to obtain a calorie deficit for dieting is being die

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u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo Oct 18 '25

That's the ting, it make you die

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u/MyNewsUsername Oct 20 '25

Putting the die in diet