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  • Latest book by Dr Mark Gillman – How the Brain Controls all Pleasures Including Sex, Food, Drugs, Rock ‘n Roll and Others
    • ‘You can only experience pleasure if you can compare it with something’
    • ‘Emotions are the stuff of life, without them life would be extremely dull.’
    • ‘Falling in love should not be taken lightly’
    • ‘Most addicts take drugs and/or alcohol because they stimulate the same pleasure pathways of the brain as those activated during our natural pleasures’
    • ‘Eating and drinking are evolutionarily important and therefore produce pleasure, but too much of a good thing can lead to health problems like obesity’
    • ‘Exploring the pain pleasure continuum’
    • Shopping addiction – ‘the urge to shop till you drop’
    • May I have this dance? Music and dance as abstract pleasures and the effects of music on the brain
    • Pleasure of love and sex – ‘literature, art and music are steeped in descriptions of love and sex’
    • Drug addiction and alcoholism – The coach that carries the ‘hurt’ element is seldom far behind the pleasure wagon
    • ‘Eating disorders and obesity’ – two sides of the same coin
    • Emotions and feelings – without the emotions that colour our lives life would be dull indeed
    • Gambling addiction – ‘the hope that by putting something at risk we will get something of greater benefit’
    • Computer addiction – the LSD of the 1980s
    • Addiction and dependence and the effects of drugs on the brain – some drugs, if used regularly, and for some time, cause behavioural changes in the user
    • Romantic love, sex and attachment as physiological addictions
    • Love, lust, attachment and drug addiction
  • Psychotropic Nitrous Oxide
    • Summary
    • What is PAN?
    • Advantages of PAN
    • Therapy
    • Gaseous Neurotransmission
    • Pain Control
    • Novel Addiction
    • Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurological and Psychiatric Conditions
    • Conclusion
    • Further Reading and References
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