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What Happens in Your Brain When You Experience Pleasure?

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  • Pleasure — the good feeling you get in response to drugs, food, sex and other stimulants — is driven by the release of various neurotransmitters throughout your brain, including dopamine, the so-called “pleasure chemical”

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