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IN 1954 Olds and Milner1 showed that rats would work to administer trains of electrical pulses through implanted electrodes to sites (for example, medial forebrain bundle, hypothalamus2) in their brains (self-stimulation). Self-stimulation has since been reported in the domestic cat3, rhesus monkey3, bottlenose dolphin4 and domestic dog5. Euphoria has followed stimulation in the hypothalamus and tegmentum in man3. In vertebrates other than mammals, the only demonstration of self-stimulation appears to have been in goldfish (Carassius auratus)6.
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ANDREW, R. Intracranial Self-stimulation in the Chick. Nature 213, 847–848 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213847a0
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