Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure.
Affective neuroscience aims to understand how affect (pleasure or displeasure) is created by brains. Progress is aided by recognizing that affect has both objective and subjective features. Those dual aspects reflect that affective reactions are generated by neural mechanisms, selected in evolution...
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| description | Affective neuroscience aims to understand how affect (pleasure or displeasure) is created by brains. Progress is aided by recognizing that affect has both objective and subjective features. Those dual aspects reflect that affective reactions are generated by neural mechanisms, selected in evolution based on their real (objective) consequences for genetic fitness. We review evidence for neural representation of pleasure in the brain (gained largely from neuroimaging studies), and evidence for the causal generation of pleasure (gained largely from brain manipulation studies). We suggest that representation and causation may actually reflect somewhat separable neuropsychological functions. Representation reaches an apex in limbic regions of prefrontal cortex, especially orbitofrontal cortex, influencing decisions and affective regulation. Causation of core pleasure or 'liking' reactions is much more subcortically weighted, and sometimes surprisingly localized. Pleasure 'liking' is especially generated by restricted hedonic hotspot circuits in nucleus accumbens (NAc) and ventral pallidum. Another example of localized valence generation, beyond hedonic hotspots, is an affective keyboard mechanism in NAc for releasing intense motivations such as either positively valenced desire and/or negatively valenced dread. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:91f70c14-feb3-42e9-9521-114eebaad39b2022-03-26T23:22:13ZNeuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:91f70c14-feb3-42e9-9521-114eebaad39bEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Berridge, KKringelbach, MAffective neuroscience aims to understand how affect (pleasure or displeasure) is created by brains. Progress is aided by recognizing that affect has both objective and subjective features. Those dual aspects reflect that affective reactions are generated by neural mechanisms, selected in evolution based on their real (objective) consequences for genetic fitness. We review evidence for neural representation of pleasure in the brain (gained largely from neuroimaging studies), and evidence for the causal generation of pleasure (gained largely from brain manipulation studies). We suggest that representation and causation may actually reflect somewhat separable neuropsychological functions. Representation reaches an apex in limbic regions of prefrontal cortex, especially orbitofrontal cortex, influencing decisions and affective regulation. Causation of core pleasure or 'liking' reactions is much more subcortically weighted, and sometimes surprisingly localized. Pleasure 'liking' is especially generated by restricted hedonic hotspot circuits in nucleus accumbens (NAc) and ventral pallidum. Another example of localized valence generation, beyond hedonic hotspots, is an affective keyboard mechanism in NAc for releasing intense motivations such as either positively valenced desire and/or negatively valenced dread. |
| spellingShingle | Berridge, K Kringelbach, M Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure. |
| title | Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure. |
| title_full | Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure. |
| title_fullStr | Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure. |
| title_short | Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure. |
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