Human Brains Have Evolved Unique 'Feel-Good' Circuits
A comparison of brain tissue from monkeys, chimps and humans suggests that our brains produce the chemical messenger dopamine, which plays a major role in pleasure and rewards, far differently.
A brain system involved in everything from addiction to autism appears to have evolved differently in people than in great apes, a team reports Thursday in the journal Science.
The system controls the production of dopamine, a chemical messenger that plays a major role in pleasure and rewards.
"Humans have, an author of the study and a professor of neuroscience at Yale.
