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The pleasure of pain

biblonia
Jun 29, 2022
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What if there was so much pleasure in the painful memories of old that we can’t help living in the past?

An fMRI study from 2016 revealed that 'when nostalgia was triggered, participants’ brains showed activity in two powerful neural networks: the areas of the brain associated with memory and the brain’s reward system'. Pleasurable memory.

It is perhaps t…

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