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Pleasures of the brain / edited by Morten L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pleasure.
- Reward (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pleasure is fundamental to well-being and the quality of life, but until recently, was barely explored by science. Morten Kringelbach and Kent Berridge have brought together leading researchers to provides a comprehensive review of our current scientific understanding of pleasure.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Many Faces of Pleasure
- Fundamental Pleasure Questions
- Part I. Animal Pleasures
- 1. Hedonic Hotspots: Generating Sensory Pleasure in the Brain
- 2. Conditioned Reinforcement and the Specialized Role of Corticolimbic Circuits in the Pursuit of Happiness and Other More Specific Rewards
- 3. Neural Coding of Pleasure: "Rose-tinted Glasses" of the Ventral Pallidum
- 4. Hedonics: The Cognitive-Motivational Interface
- 5. Neuroethology of Pleasure
- Part II. Human Pleasures
- 6. On the Nature and Function of Pleasure
- 7. The Dialectics of Pleasure
- 8. Olfaction and Its Pleasures: Human Neuroimaging Perspectives
- 9. The Pleasure of Taste, Flavor, and Food
- 10. Sexual Pleasure
- 11. The Sweetest Taboo: Functional Neurobiology of Human Sexuality in Relation to Pleasure
- 12. The Hedonic Brain: A Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Pleasure
- 13. The Neurobiology of Desire: Dopamine and the Regulation of Mood and Motivational States in Humans
- 14. To Be Happy and to Know It: The Experience and Meta-Awareness of Pleasure
- 15. The Pleasure of Music
- 16. The Pleasure of Art
- Part III. Clinical Applications
- 17. Placebo Analgesia and the Brain
- 18. Deep Brain Stimulation and Pleasure
- 19. Pain and Pleasure : Masters of Mankind
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773652-1
- 0-19-971613-7
- OCLC:
- 741887034
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