Pleasure Systems in the Brain

2015/05/01 by Kent Berridge, Kent C. Berridge, Morten L. Kringelbach +1 · 5 citations
Chemistry · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Affect (linguistics) #Anhedonia #Anxiety #Brain stimulation reward #Chemistry #Cognitive psychology #Communication #Curiosity #Dopamine #Dysphoria #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Neuroscience #Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior #Nucleus accumbens #Pleasure #Psychiatry #Psychology #Reward system #Valence (chemistry)

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.02.018

crossref issued 2015/05/01 · crossref published 2015/05/01 · crossref published-print 2015/05/01 · openalex publication_date 2015/05/01 · crossref created 2015/05/06 · crossref deposited 2024/06/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05 · crossref indexed 2026/08/05

Citations

• Biological substrates of reward and aversion: A nucleus accumbens activity hypothesis
• Updating dopamine reward signals
• Decoding mental states from brain activity in humans
• Reconsidering anhedonia in depression: Lessons from translational neuroscience
• Nucleus Accumbens Deep Brain Stimulation Decreases Ratings of Depression and Anxiety in Treatment-Resistant Depression
• Endogenous Opioid Release in the Human Brain Reward System Induced by Acute Amphetamine Administration
• Consciousness without a cerebral cortex: A challenge for neuroscience and medicine
• Mapping brain circuits of reward and motivation: In the footsteps of Ann Kelley
• Why the brain talks to itself: sources of error in emotional prediction
• Hedonic Hot Spot in Nucleus Accumbens Shell: Where Do μ-Opioids Cause Increased Hedonic Impact of Sweetness?

Cited by

• Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music
• Opioid and orexin hedonic hotspots in rat orbitofrontal cortex and insula
• Activational and effort-related aspects of motivation: neural mechanisms and implications for psychopathology
• Reconceptualizing anhedonia: novel perspectives on balancing the pleasure networks in the human brain
• Measuring anhedonia: impaired ability to pursue, experience, and learn about reward
• Reward system [wikipedia]