Pleasures of the Brain

Morten L. Kringelbach, DPhil, is the Director of the Trygfonden Research Group and holds a dual appointment at the University of Oxford, UK, and Aarhus University, Denmark, where he is a Senior Research Fellow and a Professor of Neuroscience, respectively. Kent C. Berridge, PhD, is Professor in the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program at the University of Michigan.

Introduction: The Many Faces of Pleasure Morten L. Kringelbach & Kent C. Berridge ; I. Animal Pleasures ; 1. Hedonic Hotspots: Generating Sensory Pleasure in the Brain Kyle S. Smith, Stephen V. Mahler, Susana Pecina, Kent C. Berridge (Michigan, USA) ; 2. Conditioned Reinforcement and the Specialized Role of Corticolimbic Circuits in the Pursuit of Happiness and Other More Specific Rewards Kathryn A. Burke, Theresa Franz, Danielle Miller, & Geoffrey Schoenbaum (University of Maryland, USA) ; 3. Neural Coding of Pleasure: "Rose-tinted Glasses" of the Ventral Pallidum J. Wayne Aldridge & Kent C. Berridge (Michigan, USA) ; 4. Hedonics: The Cognitive-Motivational Interface Anthony Dickinson & Bernard Balleine (Cambridge, UK and UCLA, USA) ; 5. Neuroethology of Pleasure Karli K. Watson, Stephen V. Sheperd & Michael L. Platt (Duke University, USA) ; II. Human Pleasures ; 6. On the Nature and Function of Pleasure Nico Frijda (Amsterdam, Holland) ; 7. The Dialectics of Pleasure Michel Cabanac (Laval, Canada) ; 8. Neuroimaging of Olfaction Jay Gottfried (Northwestern, USA) ; 9. The Pleasure of Taste, Flavor and Food Maria Veldhuizen, Kristin Rudenga & Dana Small (Yale, USA) ; 10. Sexual Pleasure Barry R. Komisaruk, Beverly Whipple & Carlos Beyer (Rutgers, USA) ; 11. The Sweetest Taboo: Functional Neurobiology of Human Sexuality in relation to Pleasure Janniko R. Georgiadis & Rudie Kortekaas (University of Groningen, Holland) ; 12. The Hedonic Brain: A Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Pleasure Morten L. Kringelbach (Oxford, UK) ; 13. The Neurobiology of Desire: Dopamine and the Regulation of Mood and Motivational States in Humans Marco Leyton (McGill, Canada) ; 14. To Be Happy and To Know It: The Meta-awareness of Pleasure Jonathan Schooler & Iris Mauss (University of California, Santa Barbara) ; 15. The Pleasure of Music Peter Vuust & Morten Kringelbach (Aarhus University, Denmark and Oxford, UK) ; 16. Neuroaesthetics Martin Skov (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) ; III. Clinical Applications ; 17. Placebo Analgesia and the Brain Pregrag Petrovic (Karolinska, Sweden) ; 18. Deep Brain Stimulation and Pleasure Alex Green, Erlick Pereira & Tipu Aziz (Oxford, UK) ; 19. Pleasure and Pain: Masters of Mankind Siri Leknes & Irene Tracey (Oxford, UK)