Expert Explanation, To Involve All Indrawi Aspects Apart From Feelings And Minds

Illustration of an expert's explanation of the pleasure sourced from the brain (Freepic/Connyo_studio)

YOGYAKARTA neuroscientist explained, pleasure comes from the brain. Morten Kringelbach from Oxford, for two decades scanned brain imaging from participants to investigate what happens to the brain when experiencing elements of well-being, one of which is pleasure.

From neuroanatomics that Kringelbach studies, he makes schemes, brain models, and neural activities that underlie various brain regions in various circumstances. Because in the brain there are billions of neurons and glyal cells that communicate with each other, knowledge of this can be applied in caring for circuit functions related to pleasure. Not only in the positive aspect, but there are neuropsychiatric disorders and addiction that need to be understood and anticipated.

Launching a review in Psychology Today, Sunday, December 25, it relates to the sense of sight, hearing, smell, or feeling something that is considered fun. The information passes through the brain's sensory cortex. But the code is not in this place, but is called a hedonist flash.

This means that pleasure is not just sensation and thought. It consists of cycles of wanting, liking, and learning. A good life depends on the system of the brain that can go through this cycle of change on a regular basis. Besides having a variety of fun, suggests Marianna Pogosyan, Ph.D., one needs to share fun with others.

A cycle of pleasure begins when you are coffee lover before drinking coffee. At the moment before sipping coffee, there is hope and anticipation. As long as you don't drink coffee, there's noENTial information, but once you know there's coffee and previous experiences, you have a desire.

At the desired stage, most of the brain is busy looking for ways to achieve the target. As if Nada's brain tells you that there is something important and needs to be considered. Over time, you will be more motivated to pay attention to it until you finally wake up and make coffee, for example. Once the sensory experience works, the hedonist point of the brain is active and pleasure increases. This increases to a liking stage. But when expectations are not met, then the barrier to pleasure has taken place. When the cycle of pleasure does not work, then addiction and anhedonia occur.

Instead of going through a desire-to-learn circuit where things are naturally reduced and one can continue their days, people who are addicted to being trapped in the cycle of repetition. For example, they may experience extreme motivation without reward and continue to return to their desires, as it doesn't seem enough to let them continue to the stage of pleasure and satisfaction.

Anhedonia, is a condition when a person does not feel pleasure. This is a major symptom of neurological disorders. Depressive people, for example, may still be motivated to drink coffee. But when you do, it is no longer fun.

It is even more important to understand, close-related pleasure and pain. This is evidenced when experts stimulate brain stimulation with 20 Hz, the patient reports instantaneous relief. But when stimulated with 50-100 Hz, the pain gets worse. The response to pain and relief is the same network work. This is a network involved when feeling intense discomfort over the long term.

From the explanation above, pleasure is part of a complicated system of interconnection. Starting from affection, meaning, admiration, gratitude, satisfaction, and belonging, contributing to the development of other creatures.