The ability to adaptively regulate emotion is essential for mental and physical well-being.
How should we organize the myriad ways people attempt to regulate their emotions? We …

What we eat, when and how much, all are influenced by brain reward mechanisms that
generate “liking” and “wanting” for foods. As a corollary, dysfunction in reward circuits might …

Multiple signals for reward—hedonic impact, motivation, and learned associative prediction—
are funneled through brain mesocorticolimbic circuits involving the nucleus accumbens and …

In recent years the ventral pallidum has become a focus of great research interest as a
mechanism of reward and incentive motivation. As a major output for limbic signals, the …

Although impaired inhibitory control is linked to a broad spectrum of health problems,
including obesity, the brain mechanism (s) underlying voluntary control of hunger are not …

Animals use current, past, and projected future states of the organism and the world in a
finely tuned system to control ingestion. They must not only deal effectively with current …

Previous studies have shown reduced hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal responses to both
acute and chronic restraint stressors in rats allowed to ingest highly palatable foods (32 …

A comprehensive systems overview of sensory and reward processing in the brain, this book
explores what reward processing can teach us about the senses and what sensory …

An important issue in affective neuroscience concerns the role of mesocorticolimbic
dopamine systems in positive-valenced motivation (eg, reward) versus negative-valenced …

Alzheimer's disease is a multifactorial disease that exhibits cognitive deficits, neuronal loss,
amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and neuroinflammation in the brain. Hence, a multi …