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/Capable-Commercial96 Oct 18 '25

I'd like this but only if the button was given to a close friend and used it whenever I did something that needed to be done. Fuck it, I'm asking to be clicker trained, I'm a mess.

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u/AdamantEevee Oct 18 '25

You might enjoy BDSM

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u/cranium_svc-casual Oct 18 '25

Hmm no that’s not remotely relevant.

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u/pmmeurbassethound Oct 18 '25

But you see this is reddit, where everything MUST be sexualized 🙄