Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation [Hardcover]

This volume covers the current status of research in the neurobiology of motivated behaviors in humans and other animals in healthy condition. This includes consideration of the psychological processes that drive motivated behavior and the anatomical, electrophysiological and neurochemical mechanisms which drive these processes and regulate behavioural output. The volume also includes chapters on pathological disturbances in motivation including apathy, or motivational deficit as well as addictions, the pathological misdirection of motivated behavior. As with the chapters on healthy motivational processes, the chapters on disease provide a comprehensive up to date review of the neurobiological abnormalities that underlie motivation, as determined by studies of patient populations as well as animal models of disease. The book closes with a section on recent developments in treatments for motivational disorders.

 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 l.