Pleasures of the brain / edited by Morten L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge
- Published:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2009
- Physical Description:
- viii, 343 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Kringelbach, Morten L. and Berridge, Kent C.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Introduction. The Many Faces of Pleasure / Morten L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge -- Fundamental Pleasure Questions -- Pt. I. Animal Pleasures -- 1. Hedonic Hotspots: Generating Sensory Pleasure in the Brain / Kyle S. Smith, Stephen V. Mahler, Susana Pecina and Kent C. Berridge -- 2. Conditioned Reinforcement and the Specialized Role of Corticolimbic Circuits in the Pursuit of Happiness and Other More Specific Rewards / Kathryn A. Burke, Theresa Franz, Danielle Miller and Geoffrey Schoenbaum -- 3. Neural Coding of Pleasure: "Rose-tinted Glasses" of the Ventral Pallidum / J. Wayne Aldridge and Kent C. Berridge -- 4. Hedonics: The Cognitive-Motivational Interface / Anthony Dickinson and Bernard Balleine -- 5. Neuroethology of Pleasure / Karli K. Watson, Stephen V. Shepherd and Michael L. Platt -- Pt. II. Human Pleasures -- 6. On the Nature and Function of Pleasure / Nico H. Frijda -- 7. The Dialectics of Pleasure / Michel Cabanac -- 8. Olfaction and Its Pleasures: Human Neuroimaging Perspectives / Jay A. Gottfried -- 9. The Pleasure of Taste, Flavor, and Food / Maria C. Veldhuizen, Kristin J. Rudenga and Dana M. Small -- 10. Sexual Pleasure / Barry R. Komisaruk, Beverly Whipple and Carlos Beyer -- 11. The Sweetest Taboo: Functional Neurobiology of Human Sexuality in Relation to Pleasure / Janniko R. Georgiadis and Rudie Kortekaas -- 12. The Hedonic Brain: A Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Pleasure / Morten L. Kringelbach -- 13. The Neurobiology of Desire: Dopamine and the Regulation of Mood and Motivational States in Humans / Marco Leyton -- 14. To Be Happy and to Know It: The Experience and Meta-Awareness of Pleasure / Jonathan W. Schooler and Iris B. Mauss -- 15. The Pleasure of Music / Peter Vunst and Morten L. Kringelbach -- 16. The Pleasure of Art / Martin Skov -- Pt. III. Clinical Applications -- 17. Placebo Analgesia and the Brain / Predrag Petrovic -- 18. Deep Brain Stimulation and Pleasure / Alexander L. Green, Erlick A. C. Pereira and Tipu Z. Aziz -- 19. Pain and Pleasure: Masters of Mankind / Siri Leknes and Irene Tracey.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780195331028 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195331028 (cloth : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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