Article ID: CBB001034942

Origins and Import of Reinforcing Self-Stimulation of the Brain (2010)

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The phenomenon of self-stimulation of the brain was discovered in 1954. This was one of the more important discoveries in behavioral neuroscience and psychology. The present article examines the origins of the phenomenon, describing some of the distal origins briefly, since each has a long history of its own and concentrates on the more proximal origins, including experiments preceding and closely related to the phenomenon and includes an account of the relevant knowledge at that time. A brief description of the events leading to Olds' crucial, if serendipitous, experiment is retold, followed by descriptions of some early experiments that preceded the later voluminous body of work based on it. Finally, some views are expressed about the import of the finding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Authors & Contributors
Lorenzo, Alfredo
de Olmos, Soledad
Wexler, Anna
Modern, John Lardas
Prkachin, Yvan
Dow Schüll, Natusha
Concepts
Brain
Neurosciences
Neurology
Neuroanatomy
Neurophysiology
Psychology
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
17th century
Places
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
Manitoba (Canada)
United States
Netherlands
Germany
France
Institutions
Neurosciences Research Program
Society for Neuroscience
International Brain Research Organization
Montreal Neurological Institute
Rockefeller Foundation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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