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

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 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

Food television is best served by shows on how to cook for people who want to learn to cook, not be pleasure-seeking citizens of the world.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2019

It is evident that a large number of these men will be more refined and more highly educated than those who only play necessarily; the power of pleasure-seeking implies, in general, fortunate circumstances of life.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John




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