Assessing anhedonia in depression: Potentials and pitfalls

SJ Rizvi, DA Pizzagalli, BA Sproule… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The resurgence of interest in anhedonia within major depression has been fuelled by
clinical trials demonstrating its utility in predicting antidepressant response as well as recent …

Activational and effort-related aspects of motivation: neural mechanisms and implications for psychopathology

JD Salamone, SE Yohn, L López-Cruz, N San Miguel… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation has been defined as the process that allows organisms to regulate their internal
and external environment, and control the probability, proximity and availability of stimuli. As …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibitory input from the lateral hypothalamus to the ventral tegmental area disinhibits dopamine neurons and promotes behavioral activation

EH Nieh, CM Vander Weele, GA Matthews… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Projections from the lateral hypothalamus (LH) to the ventral tegmental area (VTA),
containing both GABAergic and glutamatergic components, encode conditioned responses …

Effort-based decision-making in major depressive disorder: a translational model of motivational anhedonia.

MT Treadway, NA Bossaller, RC Shelton… - Journal of abnormal …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Anhedonia is a core feature of major depressive disorder (MDD), but the precise nature of
anhedonic symptoms is unknown. Whereas anhedonia has traditionally been viewed as a …

Worth the 'EEfRT'? The effort expenditure for rewards task as an objective measure of motivation and anhedonia

MT Treadway, JW Buckholtz, AN Schwartzman… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Of the putative psychopathological endophenotypes in major depressive
disorder (MDD), the anhedonic subtype is particularly well supported. Anhedonia is …

Evidence for striatal dopamine release during a video game

MJ Koepp, RN Gunn, AD Lawrence, VJ Cunningham… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Dopaminergic neurotransmission may be involved in learning, reinforcement of behaviour,
attention, and sensorimotor integration,. Binding of the radioligand 11C-labelled raclopride …

The role of nucleus accumbens dopamine in motivated behavior: a unifying interpretation with special reference to reward-seeking

S Ikemoto, J Panksepp - Brain Research Reviews, 1999 - Elsevier
Studies addressing behavioral functions of dopamine (DA) in the nucleus accumbens septi
(NAS) are reviewed. A role of NAS DA in reward has long been suggested. However, some …

[LLIBRE][B] What's wrong with my mouse?: behavioral phenoty** of transgenic and knockout mice

JN Crawley - 2007 - books.google.com
Dr. Jacqueline N. Crawley, author of the First and Second Editions of What's Wrong with My
Mouse? Behavioral Phenoty** of Transgenic and Knockout Mice, continues to field calls …

Neurobehavioural mechanisms of reward and motivation

TW Robbins, BJ Everitt - Current opinion in neurobiology, 1996 - Elsevier
The analysis of the behavioural and neural mechanisms of reinforcement and motivation
has benefited from the recent application of learning theory and better anatomical …

[HTML][HTML] Acute effects of cocaine on human brain activity and emotion

HC Breiter, RL Gollub, RM Weisskoff, DN Kennedy… - Neuron, 1997 - cell.com
We investigated brain circuitry mediating cocaine-induced euphoria and craving using
functional MRI (fMRI). During double-blind cocaine (0.6 mg/kg) and saline infusions in …