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.
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.
Authors: J Melasch; M Rullmann; A Hilbert; J Luthardt; G A Becker; M Patt; A Villringer; K Arelin; P M Meyer; D Lobsien; Y-S Ding; K Müller; O Sabri; S Hesse; B Pleger Journal: Int J Obes (Lond) Date: 2015-10-20 Impact factor: 5.095
Authors: Paul Crits-Christoph; Steven Wadden; Averi Gaines; Agnes Rieger; Robert Gallop; James R McKay; Mary Beth Connolly Gibbons Journal: J Subst Abuse Treat Date: 2018-06-21