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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction: The Many Faces of Pleasure
Morten L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge
- I. Animal Pleasures
- 1: Hedonic Hotspots: Generating Sensory Pleasure in the Brain
Kyle S. Smith, Stephen V. Mahler, Susana Pecina, Kent C. Berridge (Michigan, USA)
- 2: 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, and Geoffrey Schoenbaum (University of Maryland, USA)
- 3: Neural Coding of Pleasure: "Rose-tinted Glasses" of the Ventral Pallidum
J. Wayne Aldridge and Kent C. Berridge (Michigan, USA)
- 4: Hedonics: The Cognitive-Motivational Interface
Anthony Dickinson and Bernard Balleine (Cambridge, UK and UCLA, USA)
- 5: Neuroethology of Pleasure
Karli K. Watson, Stephen V. Sheperd and Michael L. Platt (Duke University, USA)
- II. Human Pleasures
- 6: On the Nature and Function of Pleasure
Nico Frijda (Amsterdam, Holland)
- 7: The Dialectics of Pleasure
Michel Cabanac (Laval, Canada)
- 8: Neuroimaging of Olfaction
Jay Gottfried (Northwestern, USA)
- 9: The Pleasure of Taste, Flavor and Food
Maria Veldhuizen, Kristin Rudenga and Dana Small (Yale, USA)
- 10: Sexual Pleasure
Barry R. Komisaruk, Beverly Whipple and Carlos Beyer (Rutgers, USA)
- 11: The Sweetest Taboo: Functional Neurobiology of Human Sexuality in relation to Pleasure
Janniko R. Georgiadis and Rudie Kortekaas (University of Groningen, Holland)
- 12: The Hedonic Brain: A Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Pleasure
Morten L. Kringelbach (Oxford, UK)
- 13: The Neurobiology of Desire: Dopamine and the Regulation of Mood and Motivational States in Humans
Marco Leyton (McGill, Canada)
- 14: To Be Happy and To Know It: The Meta-awareness of Pleasure
Jonathan Schooler and Iris Mauss (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- 15: The Pleasure of Music
Peter Vuust and Morten Kringelbach (Aarhus University, Denmark and Oxford, UK)
- 16: Neuroaesthetics
Martin Skov (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- III. Clinical Applications
- 17: Placebo Analgesia and the Brain
Pregrag Petrovic (Karolinska, Sweden)
- 18: Deep Brain Stimulation and Pleasure
Alex Green, Erlick Pereira and Tipu Aziz (Oxford, UK)
- 19: Pleasure and Pain: Masters of Mankind
Siri Leknes and Irene Tracey (Oxford, UK)
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Morten L. Kringelbach, DPhil, is the Director of the Trygfonden Research Group and holds a dual appointment at the University of Oxford, UK, and Aarhus University, Denmark, where he is a Senior Research Fellow and a Professor of Neuroscience, respectively.
Kent C. Berridge, PhD, is Professor in the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program at the University of Michigan.
Zusammenfassung
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.
Zusatztext
...an intriguing journey through the mechanisms of pleasure in the brain.
