Internal sensation of pleasure can be explained as a specific conformation of semblance: Inference from electrophysiological findings
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- Subject Areas
- Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Zoology, Anatomy and Physiology, Psychiatry and Psychology
- Keywords
- Pleasure, Nucleus accumbens, Lateral habenula, Long-term depression, Mind, Internal sensation
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- © 2019 Vadakkan
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. Internal sensation of pleasure can be explained as a specific conformation of semblance: Inference from electrophysiological findings. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27886v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27886v1
Abstract
Semblance hypothesis was able to find a solution for the generation of first- person internal sensation of memory along with provisions for behavioral motor actions. The derived inter-postsynaptic functional LINK (IPL) mechanism was able to explain a large number of findings from different levels of the system ranging from perception to sleep. It was possible to explain long-term potentiation (LTP) as the effect of experimental scaling-up of the changes occurring during natural learning. By keeping the latter relationship as a baseline, it was possible to explain long-term depression (LTD) observed in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a scaled-up change of a mechanism responsible for inducing internal sensation of pleasure. This mechanism provides inter-connectable explanations for the attenuation of postsynaptic potentials, reduced ring of medium spiny neurons and the finding that LTD induced by stimulation of one pathway to NAc occludes the LTD induction by another pathway.
Author Comment
This is a preprint version of the article. This article was not published anywhere before in journals or conferences.