Recent evidence suggests that rewarding and aversive stimuli affect the same brain areas,
including medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens. Although nucleus accumbens is …

Motivational salience regulates the strength of goal seeking, the amount of risk taken, and
the energy invested, from mild to extreme. Emotional experiences promote highly persistent …

Motivational salience regulates the strength of goal seeking, the amount of risk taken, and
the energy invested from mild to extreme. Highly motivational experiences promote highly …

Intense motivational salience attribution is considered to have a major role in the
development of different psychopathologies. Numerous brain areas are involved in “normal” …

What roles do mesolimbic and neostriatal dopamine systems play in reward? Do they
mediate the hedonic impact of rewarding stimuli? Do they mediate hedonic reward learning …

The attribution of incentive salience to reward‐paired cues is dependent on dopamine
release in the nucleus accumbens core (NAcC). These dopamine signals conform to …

Whether we 'like'and 'want'stimuli depends partially on opioid neurotransmission within the
nucleus accumbens. But how are 'liking'and 'wanting'organized within this neural substrate …

Reward-seeking behavior is controlled by neuronal circuits that include the basolateral
nucleus of amygdala (BLA), medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), nucleus accumbens (NAc) and …

Adaptive motivated behavior requires rapid discrimination between beneficial and harmful
stimuli. Such discrimination leads to the generation of either an approach or rejection …

The response of extracellular dopamine (DA) and its relationship to motivational valence
(positive or negative) and novelty of motivational stimuli was investigated by brain …