Effort-related functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine and associated forebrain circuits

JD Salamone, M Correa, A Farrar, SM Mingote - Psychopharmacology, 2007 - Springer
Background Over the last several years, it has become apparent that there are critical
problems with the hypothesis that brain dopamine (DA) systems, particularly in the nucleus …

[HTML][HTML] Dopamine, behavioral economics, and effort

JD Salamone, M Correa, AM Farrar… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2009 - frontiersin.org
There are numerous problems with the hypothesis that brain dopamine (DA) systems,
particularly in the nucleus accumbens, directly mediate the rewarding or primary …

Nucleus accumbens dopamine and the forebrain circuitry involved in behavioral activation and effort-related decision making: implications for understanding anergia …

JD Salamone, M Correa, SM Mingote… - Current Psychiatry …, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
The notion that motivated behaviors having an energetic or activational component is an old
one, and there are numerous examples of this idea from the literatures of psychology and …

Nucleus accumbens dopamine and the regulation of effort in food-seeking behavior: implications for studies of natural motivation, psychiatry, and drug abuse

JD Salamone, M Correa, S Mingote… - Journal of Pharmacology …, 2003 - ASPET
For several decades, it has been suggested that dopamine (DA), especially in nucleus
accumbens, mediates the primary reinforcing characteristics of natural stimuli such as food …

Mesolimbic dopamine and the regulation of motivated behavior

JD Salamone, M Pardo, SE Yohn, L López-Cruz… - Behavioral …, 2016 - Springer
It has been known for some time that nucleus accumbens dopamine (DA) is involved in
aspects of motivation, but theoretical approaches to understanding the functions of DA have …

Motivational views of reinforcement: implications for understanding the behavioral functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine

JD Salamone, M Correa - Behavioural brain research, 2002 - Elsevier
Although the Skinnerian 'Empirical Law of Effect'does not directly consider the fundamental
properties of stimuli that enable them to act as reinforcers, such considerations are critical for …

The behavioral pharmacology of effort‐related choice behavior: dopamine, adenosine and beyond

JD Salamone, M Correa, EJ Nunes… - Journal of the …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
For many years, it has been suggested that drugs that interfere with dopamine (DA)
transmission alter the “rewarding” impact of primary reinforcers such as food. Research and …

Behavioral functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine: empirical and conceptual problems with the anhedonia hypothesis

JD Salamone, MS Cousins, BJ Snyder - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 1997 - Elsevier
Nucleus accumbens (DA) has been implicated in a number of different behavioral functions,
but most commonly it is said to be involved in “reward” or “reinforcement”. In the present …

Beyond the reward hypothesis: alternative functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine

JD Salamone, M Correa, SM Mingote… - Current opinion in …, 2005 - Elsevier
According to the dopamine (DA) hypothesis of reward, DA systems in the brain, particularly
in the nucleus accumbens, are thought to directly mediate the rewarding or primary …

[HTML][HTML] The mysterious motivational functions of mesolimbic dopamine

JD Salamone, M Correa - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Nucleus accumbens dopamine is known to play a role in motivational processes, and
dysfunctions of mesolimbic dopamine may contribute to motivational symptoms of …