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CURRENT OPINION IN PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 65-73Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.coph.2008.12.014
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- National Institute of Mental Health (USA)
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In recent years significant progress has been made delineating the psychological components of reward and their underlying neural mechanisms. Here we briefly highlight findings on three dissociable psychological components of reward: 'liking' (hedonic impact), 'wanting' (incentive salience), and learning (predictive associations and cognitions). A better understanding of the components of reward, and their neurobiological substrates, may help in devising improved treatments for disorders of mood and motivation, ranging from depression to eating disorders, drug addiction, and related compulsive pursuits of rewards.
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