Pleasures of the brain

Handbook of Personality: Theory and Research

2008 • 8,581 citations

Handbook of Social Psychology

2013 • 7,684 citations

Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences.

1980 • 7,533 citations

Well-being : the foundations of hedonic psychology

1999 • 7,338 citations

The neural basis of drug craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction

1993 • 7,074 citations

The feeling of what happens: body and emotion in the making of consciousness

2000 • 5,547 citations

Handbook of Affective Sciences

2002 • 4,930 citations

Handbook of Personality : Theory and Research

1992 • 4,599 citations

The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

2004 • 4,130 citations

Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

1998 • 4,022 citations

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

2000 • 3,979 citations

What is the role of dopamine in reward: hedonic impact, reward learning, or incentive salience?

1998 • 3,973 citations

Deciding Advantageously Before Knowing the Advantageous Strategy

1997 • 3,454 citations

Emotion, Decision Making and the Orbitofrontal Cortex

2000 • 3,415 citations

Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of septal area and other regions of rat brain.

1954 • 3,047 citations

Psychology and Economics

1997 • 2,593 citations

Drug Abuse: Hedonic Homeostatic Dysregulation

1997 • 2,472 citations

Appraisal Processes in Emotion

2001 • 2,168 citations

Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions

2000 • 2,060 citations

Neurobiology of the structure of personality: Dopamine, facilitation of incentive motivation, and extraversion

1999 • 1,997 citations

GABA_A Receptor Channels

1994 • 1,948 citations

A model of dual attitudes.

2000 • 1,929 citations

Food reward: Brain substrates of wanting and liking

1996 • 1,831 citations

Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology

2002 • 1,620 citations

The Orbitofrontal Cortex and Reward

2000 • 1,574 citations

Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 2nd ed.

1999 • 1,518 citations

Goal-directed instrumental action: contingency and incentive learning and their cortical substrates

1998 • 1,498 citations

Physiological Role of Pleasure

1971 • 1,462 citations

Addiction

2002 • 1,444 citations

Feeling and thinking: the role of affect in social cognition

2000 • 1,387 citations

A subcortical pathway to the right amygdala mediating “unseen” fear

1999 • 1,305 citations

The psychology and neurobiology of addiction: an incentive–sensitization view

2000 • 1,288 citations

The Brain and Emotion

1998 • 1,275 citations

Acute Effects of Cocaine on Human Brain Activity and Emotion

1997 • 1,263 citations

Emotion, plasticity, context, and regulation: Perspectives from affective neuroscience.

2000 • 1,235 citations

Specificity in the projection patterns of accumbal core and shell in the rat

1991 • 1,186 citations

The taste reactivity test. I. Mimetic responses to gustatory stimuli in neurologically normal rats

1978 • 1,170 citations

The patterns of afferent innervation of the core and shell in the “Accumbens” part of the rat ventral striatum: Immunohistochemical detection of retrogradely transported fluoro‐gold

1993 • 1,084 citations

Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions

1999 • 1,063 citations

Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook

1992 • 890 citations

Why We Think Plasticity Underlying Pavlovian Fear Conditioning Occurs in the Basolateral Amygdala

1999 • 885 citations

The lateral hypothalamic syndrome: Recovery of feeding and drinking after lateral hypothalamic lesions.

1962 • 880 citations

Emotion, olfaction, and the human amygdala: Amygdala activation during aversive olfactory stimulation

1997 • 782 citations

Intra-Accumbens Amphetamine Increases the Conditioned Incentive Salience of Sucrose Reward: Enhancement of Reward “Wanting” without Enhanced “Liking” or Response Reinforcement

2000 • 760 citations

Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook

1998 • 721 citations

Associative Processes in Addiction and Reward The Role of Amygdala‐Ventral Striatal Subsystems

1999 • 713 citations

Comparative expression of hedonic impact: affective reactions to taste by human infants and other primates

2001 • 700 citations

Measuring hedonic impact in animals and infants: microstructure of affective taste reactivity patterns

2000 • 688 citations

Drug-activation of brain reward pathways

1998 • 679 citations

Unconscious Affective Reactions to Masked Happy Versus Angry Faces Influence Consumption Behavior and Judgments of Value

2004 • 677 citations

Sexual motivation: A neural and behavioural analysis of the mechanisms underlying appetitive and copulatory responses of male rats

1990 • 642 citations

Neural Encoding in Orbitofrontal Cortex and Basolateral Amygdala during Olfactory Discrimination Learning

1999 • 602 citations

Control of Response Selection by Reinforcer Value Requires Interaction of Amygdala and Orbital Prefrontal Cortex

2000 • 588 citations

Localization of brain reinforcement mechanisms: intracranial self-administration and intracranial place-conditioning studies

1999 • 573 citations

Cortical Dopaminergic Involvement in Cocaine Reinforcement

1983 • 491 citations

An integrative neuroanatomical perspective on some subcortical substrates of adaptive responding with emphasis on the nucleus accumbens

2000 • 479 citations

Differential Facial Responses to Four Basic Tastes in Newborns

1988 • 440 citations

Anticipation of play elicits high-frequency ultrasonic vocalizations in young rats.

1998 • 432 citations

What is an unconscious emotion?(The case for unconscious "liking")

2003 • 423 citations

The representation of pleasant touch in the brain and its relationship with taste and olfactory areas

1999 • 413 citations

Opioid site in nucleus accumbens shell mediates eating and hedonic ‘liking’ for food: map based on microinjection Fos plumes

2000 • 399 citations

Reexamination of the role of the hypothalamus in motivation.

1970 • 388 citations

Aversive gustatory stimulation activates limbic circuits in humans

1998 • 384 citations

Hypothalamic Control of Feeding and Self-Stimulation

1962 • 376 citations

Differential Influence of Associative and Nonassociative Learning Mechanisms on the Responsiveness of Prefrontal and Accumbal Dopamine Transmission to Food Stimuli in Rats FedAd Libitum

1997 • 374 citations

Reinforcing effects of morphine microinjection into the ventral tegmental area

1980 • 334 citations

Rewarding Actions of Phencyclidine and Related Drugs in Nucleus Accumbens Shell and Frontal Cortex

1996 • 331 citations

Subliminal Affective Priming Resists Attributional Interventions

1997 • 323 citations

Identical "Feeding" and "Rewarding" Systems in the Lateral Hypothalamus of Rats

1962 • 322 citations

The gustofacial response: observation on normal and anencephalic newborn infants.

1973 • 310 citations

Reward learning: Reinforcement, incentives, and expectations

2000 • 298 citations

Feeling and thinking: Closing the debate over the independence of affect.

2000 • 293 citations

What psychological process mediates feeding evoked by electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus?

1991 • 282 citations

Pleasure Centers in the Brain

1956 • 280 citations

Activation of the human brain by monetary reward

1997 • 277 citations

Measurement issues in emotion research.

1999 • 270 citations

Affective neuroscience: the emergence of a discipline

1995 • 269 citations

Enhanced intake of high-fat food following striatal mu-opioid stimulation: microinjection mapping and Fos expression

2000 • 258 citations

PLEASURE AND BRAIN ACTIVITY IN MAN

1972 • 249 citations

Efferent projections of the nucleus accumbens in the rat with special reference to subdivision of the nucleus: biotinylated dextran amine study

1998 • 243 citations

Reinforcing effects of brain microinjections of morphine revealed by conditioned place preference

1982 • 238 citations

Brain Stimulation Reward

2015 • 236 citations

Taste-elicited changes in facial signs of emotion and the asymmetry of brain electrical activity in human newborns

1986 • 229 citations

Dynamic Changes in Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine Efflux During the Coolidge Effect in Male Rats

1997 • 227 citations

Where does damage lead to enhanced food aversion: the ventral pallidum/substantia innominata or lateral hypothalamus?

1993 • 221 citations

Brain glucose metabolism in chronic marijuana users at baseline and during marijuana intoxication

1996 • 218 citations

Opioids and food intake: distributed functional neural pathways?

1999 • 205 citations

Cognitive-Emotional Interactions: Listen to the Brain

1999 • 199 citations

High-Frequency Ultrasonic Vocalizations Index Conditioned Pharmacological Reward in Rats

1999 • 199 citations

Neural integrative activities of nucleus accumbens subregions in relation to learning and motivation

1999 • 196 citations

Naloxone, an opiate blocker, reduces the consumption of sweet high-fat foods in obese and lean female binge eaters

1995 • 189 citations

Brain imaging and cognitive neuroscience: Toward strong inference in attributing function to structure.

1996 • 189 citations

Dissociable effects of cingulate and medial frontal cortex lesions on stimulus-reward learning using a novel Pavlovian autoshaping procedure for the rat: Implications for the neurobiology of emotion.

1997 • 187 citations

Impairments of attention after cingulotomy

1999 • 183 citations

Analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations emitted by intruders during aggressive encounters among rats (Rattus norvegicus).

1983 • 180 citations

The Psychological Unconscious: A Necessary Assumption for All Psychological Theory?

2003 • 178 citations

Increased extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens and striatum of the female rat during paced copulatory behavior.

1995 • 175 citations

The anhedonia hypothesis: Mark III

1985 • 169 citations

Increased extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens and striatum of the female rat during paced copulatory behavior.

1995 • 161 citations

Effects of Naltrexone on Food Intake and Changes in Subjective Appetite During Eating: Evidence for Opioid Involvement in the Appetizer Effect

1997 • 160 citations

Brain imaging and cognitive neuroscience: Toward strong inference in attributing function to structure.

1996 • 159 citations

Dissociable effects of cingulate and medial frontal cortex lesions on stimulus-reward learning using a novel Pavlovian autoshaping procedure for the rat: Implications for the neurobiology of emotion.

1997 • 158 citations

Social and Emotional Self‐Regulationa

1995 • 157 citations

Neonatal facial expressions in response to different qualities and intensities of gustatory stimuli

1983 • 152 citations

The Neurochemistry of Behavior

1986 • 151 citations

Comparison of Mesocorticolimbic Neuronal Responses During Cocaine and Heroin Self-Administration in Freely Moving Rats

1998 • 149 citations

Patterns of overlap and segregation between insular cortical, intermediodorsal thalamic and basal amygdaloid afferents in the nucleus accumbens of the rat

1996 • 144 citations

Human Brain Activity Response to Fentanyl Imaged by Positron Emission Tomography

1996 • 141 citations

Neural activation during sexual and competitive arousal in healthy men

1999 • 132 citations

Benzodiazepines, appetite, and taste palatability

1995 • 132 citations

Morphine enhances hedonic taste palatability in rats

1993 • 130 citations

Brain reward circuitry: A case for separate systems

1984 • 130 citations

Marijuana intoxication and brain activation in marijuana smokers

1997 • 130 citations

The hedonic impact and intake of food are increased by midazolam microinjection in the parabrachial nucleus

2000 • 129 citations

Behavioural pharmacology of food, water and salt intake in relation to drug actions at benzodiazepine receptors

1985 • 129 citations

Morphine- and naltrexone-induced modification of palatability: Analysis by the taste reactivity test.

1992 • 126 citations

Linking gustatory neurobiology to behavior in vertebrates

2000 • 125 citations

Pleasure, pain, desire, and dread: Hidden core processes of emotion.

1999 • 124 citations

Projections of the Parabrachial Nucleus in the Old World Monkey

2000 • 123 citations

Self‐Administration of Cocaine by Humans: A Laboratory Perspective

2007 • 123 citations

Morphine- and naltrexone-induced modification of palatability: Analysis by the taste reactivity test.

1992 • 118 citations

Treatment of obsessive‐compulsive disorder by psychosurgery

1993 • 116 citations

Chlordiazepoxide directly enhances positive ingestive reactions in rats

1986 • 113 citations

Emotions and hedonic experience

1999 • 113 citations

Basal Forebrain Afferent Projections Modulating Cortical Acetylcholine, Attention, and Implications for Neuropsychiatric Disorders

1999 • 113 citations

Appetite: neural and behavioural bases

1994 • 110 citations

6-Hydroxydopamine lesion of ventral pallidum blocks acquisition of place preference conditioning to cocaine

1997 • 104 citations

The Riddle of Laughter

2000 • 102 citations

Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook, 3rd ed

2000 • 101 citations

AppetiteNeural and Behavioural Bases

1994 • 98 citations

Reinforcing concomitants of electrically elicited vocalizations

1976 • 97 citations

The Behavioral Complications of Pallidal Stimulation: A Case Report

2000 • 95 citations

Hyperphagia induced by direct administration of midazolam into the parabrachial nucleus of the rat

1996 • 79 citations

On the neural computation of utility: implications from studies of brain stimulation reward

1999 • 79 citations

The Tulane Electrical Brain Stimulation Program A Historical Case Study in Medical Ethics

2000 • 73 citations

Ventral pallidum self-stimulation induces stimulus dependent increase in c-fos expression in reward-related brain regions

1997 • 66 citations

Two substrates for medial forebrain bundle self-stimulation: Myelinated axons and dopamine axons

1989 • 65 citations

Brain Stimulation Reward

2015 • 64 citations

Central enhancement of taste pleasure by intraventricular morphine.

1995 • 62 citations

Neuropsychology and the cognitive nature of the emotions

1993 • 61 citations

Brainstem mediates diazepam enhancement of palatability and feeding: microinjections into fourth ventricle versus lateral ventricle

1996 • 58 citations

Comparing the Emotional Brains of Humans and Other Animals

2002 • 55 citations

Psychology and Economics

2001 • 55 citations

Morphine enhancement of sucrose palatability: Analysis by the taste reactivity test

1996 • 55 citations

Naltrexone Treatment Increases the Aversiveness of Alcohol for Outbred Rats

1997 • 53 citations

Brainstem systems mediate the enhancement of palatability by chlordiazepoxide

1988 • 52 citations

Ultrasounds during agonistic interactions between female rats (Rattus norvegicus).

1993 • 48 citations

Comparison of delta opiate receptor agonist induced reward and motor effects between the ventral pallidum and dorsal striatum

1994 • 45 citations

Benzodiazepines and palatability: Taste reactivity in normal ingestion

1995 • 41 citations

Benzodiazepines enhance the consumption and palatability of alcohol in the rat

1998 • 41 citations

Compulsive thalamic self-stimulation: A case with metabolic, electrophysiologic and behavioral correlates

1986 • 40 citations

Alprazolam increases food intake in humans

1997 • 39 citations

Cocaine : scientific and social dimensions

1992 • 39 citations

Brainstem mediates diazepam enhancement of palatability and feeding: microinjections into fourth ventricle versus lateral ventricle

1996 • 34 citations

Midazolam-induced rapid changes in licking behaviour: evidence for involvement of endogenous opioid peptides

1997 • 33 citations

Neuropharmacology of appetite and taste preferences

1994 • 30 citations

Comparing the emotional brain of humans and other animals

2003 • 26 citations

Neural and Neurochemical Mechanisms of Pain Inhibition

1982 • 25 citations

Chlordiazepoxide enhances the palatability of lithium-, amphetamine-, and saline-paired saccharin solution

1995 • 24 citations

Neuroscience and motivation: Pathways and peptides that define motivational systems

1990 • 16 citations

Behavioural and neural mechanisms for benzodiazepine-induced hyperphagia

1995 • 4 citations

Alprazolam Increases Food Intake

1997 • 1 citations

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1955 • 0 citations