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Hunger, Thirst, Sex, and Sleep - How the Brain Controls Our Passions (Paperback)
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Hunger, Thirst, Sex, and Sleep - How the Brain Controls Our Passions (Paperback)
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Sensations of hunger, thirst, sexual attraction, and love can
dominate our thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else,
but until the last 10 years or so, the precise reasons why these
passions arise have not been understood very well. We now know that
these, and other drives like the urge to sleep, are controlled by a
small portion of the brain called the hypothalamus. This book
presents the latest information about how the brain controls our
most basic drives. In a series of fascinating anecdotes, Young
tells the tale of how scientists have discovered the role of the
hypothalamus in our basic drives and in medical conditions in which
these drives are drastically altered. Covering our need for food,
water, sex, sleep, and other life essentials, he reveals the
brain's part in how we provide for each, and how in some cases,
those needs can swing wildly out of control resulting in problems
such as obesity, diabetes, insomnia, or narcolepsy. He shows how
regulating body temperature can affect the lifespan, how the aging
process affects sexual behavior, how empathy and love develop in
relationships with family members or with love interests, and how
all these functions and more can go awry. Like other science
writers before him, Young illuminates even the complex inner
workings of the brain in a way that anyone can understand, so that
readers are treated to a tour of a tiny part of the brain that is
responsible for so many fundamental aspects of life.
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