Towards a functional neuroanatomy of pleasure and happiness

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Cognitive neuroscience of human social behaviour

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Pleasures of the brain

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Amygdalectomy and ventromedial prefrontal ablation produce similar deficits in food choice and in simple object discrimination learning for an unseen reward

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Hedonic Hotspots: Generating Sensory Pleasure in the Brain

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Deep brain stimulation for chronic pain investigated with magnetoencephalography

2007 • 104 citations

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The Hedonic Brain: A Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Pleasure

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On the Nature and Function of Pleasure

2009 • 60 citations

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The pleasure of music

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The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2nd edition)

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The Sweetest Taboo: Functional Neurobiology of Human Sexuality in Relation to Pleasure

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Anhedonia After a Selective Bilateral Lesion of the Globus Pallidus

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The pleasure center: trust your animal instincts

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The pleasure center

2008 • 9 citations

The Pleasures of Arthur

2007 • 7 citations

Short Answers to Fundamental Questions about Pleasure

2010 • 1 citations

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