Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals

2008/03/03 by Kent C. Berridge, Kent Berridge, Morten L. Kringelbach · 8 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Brain stimulation reward #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Dopamine #Happiness #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Neuroscience #Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior #Nucleus accumbens #Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies #Orbitofrontal cortex #Pleasure #Prefrontal cortex #Psychology #Reward system #Social psychology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s00213-008-1099-6

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