Some more insightful discussion on reddit.com/r/neuro/15jlxg ... read the abstract of this a while back, and it was bilateral ablation of the nucleus accumbens

Some more insightful discussion on reddit.com/r/neuro/15jlxg ... read the abstract of this a while back, and it was bilateral ablation of the nucleus accumbens, if memory serves. The nucleus accumbens, of course, is not the "pleasure center" by any definition. It does not exclusively deal with pleasure, and pleasure is not only the product of the nucleus accumbens. As I'm sure many will know, the nucleus accumbens deals with lots of processes such as motivation, reward and both "positive" and "negative" emotion. It is pretty brutal, of course, and naturally this article was primarily concerned with the ethics of the procedure...