Circuits regulating pleasure and happiness: The evolution of reward-seeking and misery-fleeing behavioral mechanisms in vertebrates

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Loonen, Anton J M ^a,b   Ivanova, Svetlana A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Severe Mental Illness   (Netherlands)

^c MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH TOMSK POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Addiction; Amygdala; Depression; Evolution of CNS; Habenula; Ketamine; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYSTEM; FEAR; FOREBRAIN; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HABENULA; HAGFISH; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LAMPREY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PLEASURE; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 84946554929     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00394     Document Type: Article

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