Pleasures of the Brain
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 September 2009
- ISBN 9780195331028
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 257x180x25 mm
- Weight 1021 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 150 illus. 0
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Long description:
Pleasure is fundamental to well-being and the quality of life, but until recently, was barely explored by science. Current research on pleasure has brought about ground-breaking developments on several fronts, and new data on pleasure and the brain have begun to converge from many disparate fields. The time is ripe to present these important findings in a single volume, and so Morten Kringelbach and Kent Berridge have brought together the leading researchers to provides a comprehensive review of our current scientific understanding of pleasure. The authors present their latest neuroscientific research into pleasure, describing studies on the brain's role in pleasure and reward in animals and humans, including brain mechanisms, neuroimaging data, and psychological analyses, as well as how their findings have been applied to clinical problems, such as depression and other disorders of hedonic well-being. To clarify the differences between their views, the researchers also provide short answers to a set of fundamental questions about pleasure and its relation to the brain. This book is intended to serve as both a starting point for readers new to the field, and as a reference for more experienced graduate students and scientists from fields such as neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery.
...an intriguing journey through the mechanisms of pleasure in the brain.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Many Faces of Pleasure
Morten L. Kringelbach & Kent C. Berridge
I. Animal Pleasures
Hedonic Hotspots: Generating Sensory Pleasure in the Brain
Kyle S. Smith, Stephen V. Mahler, Susana Pecina, Kent C. Berridge (Michigan, USA)
Conditioned Reinforcement and the Specialized Role of Corticolimbic Circuits in the Pursuit of Happiness and Other More Specific Rewards
Kathryn A. Burke, Theresa Franz, Danielle Miller, & Geoffrey Schoenbaum (University of Maryland, USA)
Neural Coding of Pleasure: "Rose-tinted Glasses" of the Ventral Pallidum
J. Wayne Aldridge & Kent C. Berridge (Michigan, USA)
Hedonics: The Cognitive-Motivational Interface
Anthony Dickinson & Bernard Balleine (Cambridge, UK and UCLA, USA)
Neuroethology of Pleasure
Karli K. Watson, Stephen V. Sheperd & Michael L. Platt (Duke University, USA)
II. Human Pleasures
On the Nature and Function of Pleasure
Nico Frijda (Amsterdam, Holland)
The Dialectics of Pleasure
Michel Cabanac (Laval, Canada)
Neuroimaging of Olfaction
Jay Gottfried (Northwestern, USA)
The Pleasure of Taste, Flavor and Food
Maria Veldhuizen, Kristin Rudenga & Dana Small (Yale, USA)
Sexual Pleasure
Barry R. Komisaruk, Beverly Whipple & Carlos Beyer (Rutgers, USA)
The Sweetest Taboo: Functional Neurobiology of Human Sexuality in relation to Pleasure
Janniko R. Georgiadis & Rudie Kortekaas (University of Groningen, Holland)
The Hedonic Brain: A Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Pleasure
Morten L. Kringelbach (Oxford, UK)
The Neurobiology of Desire: Dopamine and the Regulation of Mood and Motivational States in Humans
Marco Leyton (McGill, Canada)
To Be Happy and To Know It: The Meta-awareness of Pleasure
Jonathan Schooler & Iris Mauss (University of California, Santa Barbara)
The Pleasure of Music
Peter Vuust & Morten Kringelbach (Aarhus University, Denmark and Oxford, UK)
Neuroaesthetics
Martin Skov (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
III. Clinical Applications
Placebo Analgesia and the Brain
Pregrag Petrovic (Karolinska, Sweden)
Deep Brain Stimulation and Pleasure
Alex Green, Erlick Pereira & Tipu Aziz (Oxford, UK)
Pleasure and Pain: Masters of Mankind
Siri Leknes & Irene Tracey (Oxford, UK)
