The incentive-sensitization theory of addiction 30 years on

TE Robinson, KC Berridge - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The incentive-sensitization theory (IST) of addiction was first published in 1993, proposing
that (a) brain mesolimbic dopamine systems mediate incentive motivation (“wanting”) for …

[HTML][HTML] Unconscious will as a neurobehavioral mechanism against adversity

P Anselme - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Incentive salience theory both explains the directional component of motivation (in terms of
cue attraction or “wanting”) and its energetic component, as a function of the strength of cue …

Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning

L Engel, AR Wolff, M Blake, VL Collins, S Sinha… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Environmental cues, through Pavlovian learning, become conditioned stimuli that invigorate
and guide animals toward rewards. Dopamine (DA) neurons in the ventral tegmental area …

Cognitive representations of intracranial self-stimulation of midbrain dopamine neurons depend on stimulation frequency

SJ Millard, IB Hoang, S Sherwood, M Taira… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area support intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS),
yet the cognitive representations underlying this phenomenon remain unclear. Here, 20-Hz …