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Lone Frank

Lone Frank is a writer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author of The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep-Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor.

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Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy?

When doctors can directly access patients' cerebral reward networks, someone has to decide just how good people should feel.
- Lone Frank
- Mar 21, 2018

Lone Frank

Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy?