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Life's rewards
Linking dopamine, incentive learning, schizophrenia, and the mind
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Since its discovery in the 1960s, a vast and wide-ranging body of research has accumulated about the dopaminergic system. Life's 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, Life's 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.


Contents:

1: Introduction
2: Dopamine and reward-related learning
3: Dopamine and the elements of incentive learning
4: Multiple memory systems
5: Dopamine as the dependent variable
6: Dopamine and inverse incentive learning
7: Dopamine receptor subtypes and incentive learning
8: Dopamine and social cooperation
9: Schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
10: Drug abuse and incentive learning
11: Neuroanatomy and dopamine systems
12: Mechanisms of dopamine-mediated incentive learning
13: Dopamine and mental experience
References and Notes


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ISBN-13: 9780198824091
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: August, 2018
Pages: 480
Dimensions: 156.00 x 242.00 x 32.00
Weight: 882g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Neurology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology

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