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There are strange infections – and even stranger ones because we never thought they were virally transmitted and coming from bacteria, instead of just resulting from unhealthy lifestyle, genetics, or ageing. ‘A growing number of diseases that were thought to be down to genetics or lifestyle turn out to have an infectious origin.’ For starters, [...]

The orbitofrontal cortex is the outer strip of the brain just above the eyes, while the ventral striatum is the deep structure in the center of the brain. These are also where the pleasure sense is processed such as the so-called ‘sweet tooth’ and sexual stimuli. If you have a bigger concentration of grey matter in these areas (i.e., more brain [...]