Sentence examples for to pleasurable from inspiring English sources

Motivational factors including interest, pleasure, and reactivity to pleasurable stimuli contribute to the initiation and progression of motor activity and may interfere with the expression of retardation [ 13, 14].

Anhedonia refers to the inability to experience pleasure or a related reduction of ability to react to pleasurable stimuli, which has been considered to be one of the key features for major depression and schizophrenia [ 1].

They were coming to view sex as an activity that wasn't merely procreative, but also central to pleasurable and loving marriages.

Using magnetic resonance imaging they showed that people listening to pleasurable music had activated brain regions called the limbic and paralimbic areas, which are connected to euphoric reward responses, like those we experience from sex, good food and addictive drugs.

AS cognitive and social concerns were related to negative affect reduction smoking motives (β = .14, p < .01), but only the social concerns aspect of AS was related to pleasurable relaxation smoking motives and positive and negative reinforcement-related smoking outcome expectancies (β = .14 .17, p < .01).01

In these experiments, we repeatedly exposed people to pleasurable items (jokes), painful experiences (loud noises), and even shocking photographs (scandalous photos of Lady Gaga and daring X-Games stunts).

Yet stories are tremendously important (not to mention pleasurable) to our human brains, and we want and will continue to want to read, write, hear and tell them.

"We really want the whole experience of coming to the theater here to be pleasurable".

"It adds this layer of guilt when going out to eat is supposed to be pleasurable".

"The purpose of Vipassana is not to experience pleasurable sensations but rather to develop equanimity towards all sensations," Goenka says.

Sex is supposed to be pleasurable, not an item on a to-do list.