Reward- and aversion-related processing in the brain: translational evidence for separate and shared circuits

• Main Author: Dave J. Hayes (auth)
• Other Authors: Andrew J. Greenshaw (auth), Georg Northoff (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; appetitive; aversive; Punishment; Affective Disorders; Translational research; emotion; Affective Neuroscience; Reinforcement; Reward; value
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Affective brain circuits underpin our moods and emotions. Appetitive and aversive stimuli from our exteroceptive and interoceptive worlds play a key role in the activity of these circuits, but we still do not know precisely how to characterize these so-called reward-related and aversion-related syst...