Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, UK.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2009 Nov;13(11):479-87. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.08.006. Epub 2009 Sep 24.
The pursuit of happiness is a preoccupation for many people. Yet only the pursuit can be promised, not happiness itself. Can science help? We focus on the most tractable ingredient, hedonia or positive affect. A step toward happiness might be gained by improving the pleasures and positive moods in daily life. The neuroscience of pleasure and reward provides relevant insights, and we discuss how specific hedonic mechanisms might relate to happiness or the lack thereof. Although the neuroscience of happiness is still in its infancy, further advances might be made through mapping overlap between brain networks of hedonic pleasure with others, such as the brain's default network, potentially involved in the other happiness ingredient, eudaimonia or life meaning and engagement.
追求幸福是许多人的关注点。然而，人们只能追求幸福，而不能拥有幸福本身。科学能提供帮助吗？我们专注于最可行的因素，即享乐或积极情绪。通过改善日常生活中的愉悦和积极情绪，人们可能会朝着幸福迈进。愉悦和奖励的神经科学提供了相关的见解，我们讨论了特定的享乐机制如何与幸福或缺乏幸福相关。尽管幸福的神经科学仍处于起步阶段，但通过映射享乐的大脑网络与其他网络（如大脑的默认网络，可能与另一个幸福因素，即幸福或生活意义和投入有关）之间的重叠，可能会取得进一步的进展。
