The Brain Reward System

This second edition volume expands on the previous edition by bringing together established approaches and the latest emerging technologies for investigating the neural mechanisms of reward, reinforcement, motivation, and reward dysfunction. This edition particularly emphasizes the methodological rigor, experimental design, and practical approaches that enable investigators to move from observations of behavior to mechanistic investigations of neural circuits and molecular processes. The chapters in this book are organized into three sections and cover electrophysiological, electrochemical, and imaging approaches; molecular, genetic, and pharmacological methods; behavioral, computational, and artificial intelligence-based methods. In the Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory.

Cutting-edge and comprehensive, The Brain Reward System, Second Edition is a valuable resource for neuroscientists, psychologists, pharmacologists, clinicians, and researchers from related disciplines seeking to learn more about the neural substrates of reward and to translate discoveries from basic neuroscience into treatments of disorders involving dysfunctional reward processing.