Give me food, give me sex; give me that which I desire -- Interview with Yi Li about reward sensing!!

Chocolate, chips, cigarettes, alcohol, sex; well, we all choose our sins. What is making us crave for such desires, and what happens when we finally achieve them. Yi Li in his exciting study published in Nature Communications shows that serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphea nucleus in brain might be involved in reward and pleasure behavior. He did this by observing and recording neuronal activity in live, uninhibited mice while they seek food, sucrose, social interaction and even sex. We call him to hear more about this exciting study.   

You can read the original article here: 

Serotonin neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus encode reward signals

Li et al., Nature Communications 7, 10503, January, 2016.