Moods as ups and downs of the motivation pendulum: Revisiting reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) in bipolar disorder

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue November, 2014, Pages

  Gonen, Tal ^a,b   Sharon, Haggai ^a,b   Pearlson, Godfrey ^c,d,e   Hendler, Talma ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affectives process; Bipolar disorder; Depression; Functional neuroimaging; Motivation; System neuroscience

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MANIA; MOOD; MOTIVATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUNISHMENT; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT SENSITIVITY THEORY; REWARD;

EID: 84908666574     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00378     Document Type: Article

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