Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals
Kent C Berridge, Morten L Kringelbach, Kent C Berridge, Morten L Kringelbach
Abstract
Introduction: Pleasure and reward are generated by brain circuits that are largely shared between humans and other animals.
Discussion: Here, we survey some fundamental topics regarding pleasure mechanisms and explicitly compare humans and animals.
Conclusion: Topics surveyed include liking, wanting, and learning components of reward; brain coding versus brain causing of reward; subjective pleasure versus objective hedonic reactions; roles of orbitofrontal cortex and related cortex regions; subcortical hedonic hotspots for pleasure generation; reappraisals of dopamine and pleasure-electrode controversies; and the relation of pleasure to happiness.
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Source: PubMed