The Brain, Emotion, and Depression - Edmund T. Rolls

The Brain, Emotion, and Depression

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Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-883224-9 (ISBN)
48,60 inkl. MwSt
What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? The Brain, Emotion, and Depression addresses these issues and more, providing a unified approach to emotion, reward value, economic value, decision-making, and their brain mechanisms.
There are myriad questions that emerge when one considers emotions and decision-making: What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? What is the relationship between emotion, reward value, and subjective feelings of pleasure? How is the value of 'good' represented in the brain? Will neuroeconomics replace classical microeconomics? How does the brain implement decision-making? Are gene-defined rewards and emotions in the interests of the genes? Does rational multistep planning enable us to go beyond selfish genes to plans in the interests of the individual?

The Brain, Emotion, and Depression addresses these issues, providing a unified approach to emotion, reward value, economic value, decision-making, and their brain mechanisms. The evolutionary, adaptive value of the processes involved in emotion, the neural networks involved in emotion and decision making, and the issue of conscious emotional feelings are all considered.

The book will be valuable for those in the fields of neuroscience, neurology, psychology, psychiatry, biology, animal behaviour, economics, and philosophy from the advanced undergraduate level upwards, and for all interested in emotion and decision-making.

Professor Edmund T. Rolls performs full-time research at the Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, and at the University of Warwick, and has performed research and teaching for many years as Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and as Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His research links neurophysiological and computational neuroscience approaches to human functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies in order to provide a fundamental basis for understanding human brain function and its disorders.

1: Introduction: The Issues
2: The Nature of Emotion
3: The Function of Emotion: Reward, punishment, and emotion in brain design
4: The Brain Mechanisms Underlying Emotion
5: Food Reward Value, Pleasure, Appetite, Hunger, and Over-Eating
6: Pharmacology of Emotion, Reward, and Addiction: The basal ganglia
7: Sexual Behaviour, Reward, and Brain Function
8: Decision-Making and Attractor Networks
9: Depression
10: Rational vs. Emotional Routes to Action and Consciousness
11: Conclusions and Broader Issues
Glossary

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 175 x 246 mm
Gewicht 746 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 0-19-883224-9 / 0198832249
ISBN-13 978-0-19-883224-9 / 9780198832249
Zustand Neuware
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