What Makes You Crave Sex and Chocolate? (‘Daily Mail’)

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A Dartmouth study that traces cravings back to a particular part of the brain may offer insight in helping fight human behaviors such as addiction and overeating, writes the Daily Mail.

“Although we have a sense of what brain circuits mediate reward, less is known about the neural circuitry underlying the transfer of value to cues associated with rewards,” says Stephen Chang, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and lead author of the study, tells the Mail.

Read the full story, published 11/11/15 by the Daily Mail.

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