Why Your Brain Treats Oreos Like a Drug

Why Your Brain Treats Oreos Like A Drug
The "pleasure center" of the brain, the nucleus accumbens, apparently gets just as activated in response to Oreos as it does to cocaine and morphine, which could actually have some major public health implications. While the study was done in rats, the … Read more on Chicago Tribune

Oreo Cookies Just As Addictive As Cocaine
American researchers have revealed that Oreo cookies are just as addictive as cocaine since both of them give the brain the same amount of pleasure. Image Credit: Thinkstock Oreos. For the Connecticut College study, scientists studied the brainwaves of … Read more on Indiatimes.com

Live From the House of the Dead: Life in zero gravitas
In confirmation of this, I recently had the misfortune of turning on the small screen just long enough to see Anthony Hopkins — sorry, Sir Anthony Hopkins — eating the pan-fried brain of the wide-awake Ray Liotta. On network TV. On a Sunday afternoon … Read more on The Province