Pleasures of the Brain

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.

...an intriguing journey through the mechanisms of pleasure in the brain.

• Introduction: The Many Faces of Pleasure Morten L. Kringelbach & 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, & Geoffrey Schoenbaum (University of Maryland, USA) ; 3. Neural Coding of Pleasure: "Rose-tinted Glasses" of the Ventral Pallidum J. Wayne Aldridge & Kent C. Berridge (Michigan, USA) ; 4. Hedonics: The Cognitive-Motivational Interface Anthony Dickinson & Bernard Balleine (Cambridge, UK and UCLA, USA) ; 5. Neuroethology of Pleasure Karli K. Watson, Stephen V. Sheperd & 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 & Dana Small (Yale, USA) ; 10. Sexual Pleasure Barry R. Komisaruk, Beverly Whipple & Carlos Beyer (Rutgers, USA) ; 11. The Sweetest Taboo: Functional Neurobiology of Human Sexuality in relation to Pleasure Janniko R. Georgiadis & 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 & Iris Mauss (University of California, Santa Barbara) ; 15. The Pleasure of Music Peter Vuust & 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 & Tipu Aziz (Oxford, UK) ; 19. Pleasure and Pain: Masters of Mankind Siri Leknes & Irene Tracey (Oxford, UK)