Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation

Book Overview

Part 1.- THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF COMPONENTS OF MOTIVATIONAL DRIVE.- Regulation of the Motivation to Eat.- Sexual Motivation Opposed by the Influences of Stress .- Motivational Forces Driving Social Behaviours.- The Roles of Wanting and Liking in Motivating Behaviour, Including Gambling, Food and Drug Addiction. Circadian Regulation of Motivated Behaviour.- How Negative Forces Influence Motivations Part 2.- NEURAL MEASURES AND CORRELATES OF MOTIVATION SIGNALS AND COMPUTATIONS.- Neural Computations of Postive and Negative Reward Value.- The Dopaminergic Regulation of Motivated Behaviour.- Neural Modulators other than Dopamine that Regulate Motivated Behaviours.- Neural Correlates of Motivation Signals in Humans.- Motivational Forces in Decision Making Processes.- Part 3.- APATHY AND PATHOLOGICAL DEFICITS IN MOTIVATION.- The Identification of Phenotypes and Biomarkers in Depression.- Defining Motivation Deficits in Schizophrenia and Relating them to Clinical Symptoms.- Dissecting the Behavioural components of deficits in motivation in Patients with Schizophrenia.- How Deficits in Motivation are Similar and Different in Depression and Schizophrenia.- Modeling Motivation Deficits in Rodents.- Part 4.- ADDICTION AND THE APTHOLOGICAL MISDIRECTION OF MOTIVATED BEHAVIOUR.- Motivation in Overdrive: Substance Abuse Disorder.- Insight into Gambling motivation from Animal Models.- Part 5.- DEVELOPMENTS IN TREATMENTS FOR MOTIVATION PATHOLOGIES.- The Role of Motivation in Schizophrenia Cognitive Remediation.- The Impact of Regulating Focus on Motivated Behaviour.- Insights into Gambling Motivation from Animal Models.- Exploring Pharmacological Agents in Animal Models.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319800442
• ISBN13: 9783319800448
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 587 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"