title: The discovery of self-stimulation and other stories.
abstract: The author's recollections of the events leading to the discovery of rewarding brain stimulation at McGill University in 1953, with a history of his subsequent attempts to find a learning theory congruent with the phenomenon.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Milner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002170:Canada; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history*; D051381:Rats; D012653:Self Stimulation / Q000502:physiology