Travis F W quoted The Balanced Brain by Camilla Nord
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers …
"Although hedonic hotspots [in the brain] are both small and distributed, they also function together as a pleasure network. […] These hedonic hotspots are your brain's map of pleasure, and their biology gives us a route into understanding the role of pleasure in mental health."
— The Balanced Brain by Camilla Nord (12%)
This is interesting to me because of the drug-induced anhedonia I experienced as a side effect of the ritalin I was forced to take for five years in my childhood. My experience of pleasure of all kinds never recovered to healthy levels, as is easy to rediscover at any time by comparing my experience with anyone who claims to enjoy anything that I also try to enjoy. (It is often difficult to describe not feeling pleasure because people are looking for an objective reason in the world, but it is easy to see that I don't reach the level of pleasure others express, even if I am finding some level of pleasure.)
Now I know the injury is not specific to a brain region.