Editorial: Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Reward: Theoretical and Technical Perspectives and Their Implications for Psychopathology
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Dopamine Reward Intracranial self-stimulation Motivation Choice Learning Animal models Psychopathology
Date
2022-07-05Referencia bibliográfica
Panagis G... [et al.] (2022) Editorial: Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Reward: Theoretical and Technical Perspectives and Their Implications for Psychopathology. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 16:967922. doi: [10.3389/fnbeh.2022.967922]
Résumé
In summary, various basic and translational investigations,
including those gathered in this issue and many others, are
beginning to find common ground on the need to dissociate
specific components of the brain reward system and their
relationship with behavior. Although they mostly derive from
very different perspectives (pharmacological, behavioral, genetic,
epigenetic, computational. . . ), the results of these studies are
beginning to fit together like the pieces of a puzzle, revealing a
complex picture of the functioning of brain reward mechanisms.
It shows that the mesolimbic dopaminergic system continues to
play a key part (as a “primum inter pares”) but other systems
also have a role. This supports the design of better-targeted
treatments of the different neuropathological disorders in which
these systems are altered.