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Researchers: Sweet Tooth May Be in Brain

Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a "pleasure spot" in the brains of rats that may shed light on how food translates into pleasure for humans.

The spot in rats' brains makes sweet tastes more "liked" than other tastes, biopsychology researchers Susana Pecina and Kent Berridge found.

The pair detailed their findings in the Dec. 14 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.

Sweetness by itself is merely a sensation, they note. Its pleasure arises within the brain, where neural systems actively paint pleasure onto the sensation to generate a "liking" reaction.

The study pinpointed a pleasure spot within a larger part of the brain responsible for appetite in the nucleus accumbens, the lower front of the brain.

"There's a liking cube tucked within a larger wanting cube," Berridge said in a telephone interview.

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How you see yourself is not how others see you.

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dionysus1999 and I watched The Maltese Falcon tonight.

I need to see more classics. More!

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