ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2021
Positive Affect: Nature and brain bases of liking and wanting.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 107 citations in OpenAlex.
- Positive Affect Treatment for Depression, Anxiety, and Low Positive Affect: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
- Amplification of positivity for depression and anxiety: Neural prediction of treatment response.Behaviour research and therapy · 2024Trial
- Integrating Sleep, Eating, Bowel Habits, and Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents: A Conceptual Review of the Four Kai Framework.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Blunted anticipation, but not consummation, of food rewards in depression.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Hedonic hotspot in rat olfactory tubercle: map for mu-opioid, orexin, and muscimol enhancement of sucrose 'liking'.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- The association between the error-related negativity and self-control is moderated by impulsivity and compulsivity.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Basal Ganglia Dopamine Availability and Immune Activation Interact and Relate to Anhedonia Severity among Youth with Depression.Research square · 2026Article
- Reduced neural specificity for a romantic partner in the nucleus accumbens over relationship duration.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- The Impact of Negative Social Feedback on Wanting and Liking of Food Pictures in Anorexia Nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- Inhaled N, N-dimethyltryptamine diminishes connectivity between the ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens: relevance to pathologies of mesolimbic and mesocortical pathways.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Hedonic hotspot in rat olfactory tubercle: map for mu-opioid, orexin, and muscimol enhancement of sucrose 'liking'.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Neurobiological Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential of Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists in Binge Eating Disorder: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Sex and strain differences in the micropipette-guided drug administration (MDA) method in mice.Laboratory animals · 2025Article
- Emotion, Motivation, Reasoning, and How Their Brain Systems Are Related.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The pleasure of effort: Cognitive challenges trigger hedonic physiological responses.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Differences in Consummatory but Not Anticipatory Reward Processing Predict Depressive Symptoms in Young Adult Women.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- A technology-based randomized controlled trial of self-affirmation and gain-framed health messaging to reduce sedentary behavior in older adults.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare.Biology letters · 2025Article
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Abstract
The positive affect of rewards is an important contributor to well-being. Reward involves components of pleasure 'liking', motivation 'wanting', and learning. 'Liking' refers to the hedonic impact of positive events, with underlying mechanisms that include hedonic hotspots in limbic brain structures that amplify 'liking' reactions. 'Wanting' refers to incentive salience, a motivational process that makes reward cues attractive and able to trigger craving for their reward, mediated by larger dopamine-related mesocorticolimbic networks. Under normal conditions, 'liking' and 'wanting' cohere. However, 'liking' and 'wanting' can be dissociated by alterations in neural signaling, either induced in animal neuroscience laboratories or arising spontaneously in addictions and other affective disorders, which can be detrimental to positive well-being.
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