| Description |
viii, 343 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The many faces of pleasure / Morten L. Kringelbach, Kent C. Berridge -- Fundamental pleasure questions -- Hedonic hotspots : generating sensory pleasure in the brain / Kyle S. Smith ... [et al.] -- Conditioned reinforcement and the specialized role of corticolimbic circuits in the pursuit of happiness and other more specific rewards / Kathryn A. Burke ... [ et al.] -- Neural coding of pleasure : "rose-tinted glasses" of the ventral pallidum / J. Wayne Aldridge, Kent C. Berridge -- Hedonics : the cognitive-motivational interface / Anthony Dickinson, Bernard Balleine -- Neuroethology of pleasure / Karli K. Watson, Stephen V. Shepherd, Michael L. Platt -- On the nature and function of pleasure / Nico H. Frijda -- The dialectics of pleasure / Michel Cabanac -- Olfaction and its pleasures : human neuroimaging perspectives / Jay A. Gottfried -- The pleasure of taste, flavor, and food / Maria G. Veldhuizen, Kristin J. Rudenga, Dana M. Small -- Sexual pleasure / Barry R. Komisaruk, Beverly Whipple, Carlos Beyer -- The sweetest taboo : functional neurobiology of human sexuality in relation to pleasure / Janniko R. Georgiadis, Rudie Kortekaas -- The hedonic brain : a functional neuroanatomy of human pleasure / Morten L. Kringlebach -- The neurobiology of desire : dopamine and the regulation of mood and motivational states in humans / Marco Leyton -- To be happy and to know it : the experience and meta-awareness of pleasure / Jonathan W. Schooler, Iris B. Mauss -- The pleasure of music / Peter Vuust, Morten L. Kringelbach -- The pleasure of art / Martin Skov -- Placebo analgesia and the brain / Predrag Petrovic -- Deep brain stimulation and pleasure / Alexander L. Green, Erlick A.C. Pereira, Tipu Z. Aziz -- Pain and pleasure : masters of mankind / Siri Leknes, Irene Tracey. |
| Subject |
Pleasure.
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Reward (Psychology)
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Pleasure-Pain Principle. |
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Brain -- physiology. |
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Emotions -- physiology. |
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Pleasure -- physiology. |
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Reward. |
| Added Author |
Kringelbach, Morten L.
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Berridge, Kent C.
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| ISBN |
9780195331028 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0195331028 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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