Reward-related cues are an important part of our daily life as they often influence and guide
our actions. This paper reviews one of the experimental paradigms used to study the effects …

Cues associated with rewards, such as food or drugs of abuse, can themselves acquire
motivational properties. Acting as incentive stimuli, such cues can exert powerful control …

Environmental cues, through Pavlovian learning, become conditioned stimuli that guide
animals toward the acquisition of rewards (for example, food) that are necessary for survival …

Research on child and adolescent mental health problems has burgeoned since the
inaugural issue of Development and Psychopathology was published in 1989. In the quarter …

Mesolimbic dopamine (DA) is phasically released during appetitive behaviors, though there
is substantive disagreement about the specific purpose of these DA signals. For example …

Animal research has shown it is possible to want a reward that is not liked once obtained.
Although these findings have elicited interest, human experiments have produced …

The value of an anticipated rewarding event is a crucial component of the decision to
engage in its pursuit. But little is known of the networks responsible for encoding and …

In detoxified alcohol‐dependent patients, alcohol‐related stimuli can promote relapse.
However, to date, the mechanisms by which contextual stimuli promote relapse have not …

The striatal dopamine system has long been studied in the context of reward learning,
motivation, and movement. Given the prominent role dopamine plays in a variety of adaptive …

Drug-associated cues can acquire powerful motivational control over the behavior of
addicts, and can contribute to relapse via multiple, dissociable mechanisms. Most preclinical …