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pleasure-seeking







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The NAc helps govern motivation, pleasure-seeking behaviors, and impulse control.

From Science Daily Dec. 8, 2025

I always found something hopeful about Bourbon Street; if not the look or sound or smell of its pleasure-seeking, then the humanity of this common pursuit.

From Slate Jan. 7, 2025

Most of us aren't these people, but likely wouldn't want anyone to become cruel because of our own pleasure-seeking behaviour either.

From Salon Nov. 27, 2024

According to scientists, it is all about our brains' pleasure-seeking tendencies.

From BBC Sep. 29, 2024

Quite close to the crowd of pleasure-seeking natives was a group of natives of New Caledonia.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer




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