Since its discovery in the 1960s, a vast and wide-ranging body of research has accumulated about the dopaminergic system. Lifes Rewards:: Linking Dopamine, Incentive Learning, Schizophrenia, and the Mind offers a broad synthesis of our current understanding of this chemical, addressing, amongst others, its intricate relationship with learning and memory, psychopathology, social co-operation, and drug abuse.Aimed at students and researchers in neuroscience and psychology, Lifes Rewards:: Linking Dopamine, Incentive Learning, Schizophrenia, and the Mind is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between dopamine and reward-related incentive learning.
Introduction; Dopamine and reward-related learning; Dopamine and the elements of incentive learning; Multiple memory systems; Dopamine as the dependent variable; Dopamine and inverse incentive learning; Dopamine receptor subtypes and incentive learning; Dopamine and social cooperation; Schizophrenia, Parkinsons disease and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Drug abuse and incentive learning; Neuroanatomy and dopamine systems; Mechanisms of dopamine-mediated incentive learning; Dopamine and mental experience; References and Notes;
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