@article{1356469,
      recid = {1356469},
      author = {Piper, Hugh,},
      title = {Passion & fury : the emotional brain.: Happiness /},
      pages = {1 online resource (44 minutes)},
      note = {Title from resource description page (viewed May 25,  2017).},
      abstract = {Drawing a distinction between the lasting state of  happiness and the pursuit of instant pleasure, the program  explores the evolutionary role of happiness, and asks what  happens in the brain, and possibly in the genes, that makes  some people happy and others sad. Since depression is the  fastest growing epidemic worldwide, research on the  stimulation of positive feelings has momentous  possibilities.  Dopamine generated in the brain is  responsible for making people happy. Rats who have become  addicted to dopamine disregard food in their attempt to get  more dopamine and may die of starvation for their  addiction. Science has shown that monks during meditation  have increased levels of dopamine. An advertising executive  describes how positive images in ads trigger the brain,  stimulating pleasurable feelings and often overriding the  rational side of the brain.  The connection between food  and dopamine is being researched in the Brookhaven National  Laboratory obesity studies. Scientists are searching for  ways to stimulate the rational side of the brain to  suppress the inclination to overeat. Many people say they  benefit emotionally and physically from laughter clubs  started by the Indian Madan Kataria. Serotonin has proven  to be a mood stabilizer, and the sales of pharmaceuticals  have burgeoned worldwide since 1988. But many question  whether drugs are really the answer to achieving  happiness.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1356469},
}