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

      Salamone, John; Yohn, Samantha E.; López Cruz, Laura; San Miguel Segura, Noemí; Correa, Merce Oxford University Press (2016-04-26)
      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 such, motivation is a complex ...
    • openAccess   Complexities and paradoxes in understanding the role of dopamine in incentive motivation and instrumental action: Exertion of effort vs. anhedonia 

      Salamone, John; Ecevitoglu, Alev; Carratalá-Ros, Carla; Presby, Rose; Edelstein, Gayle A; Fleeher, Reileigh; Rotolo, Renee; Meka, Nicolette; Srinath, Sonya; Masthay, Jamie C.; Correa, Merce Elsevier (2022-05)
      Instrumental behavior is a very complex and multifaceted process. Behavioral output during instrumental performance is influenced by a variety of factors, including associative conditioning, directional and activational ...
    • closedAccess   Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Reward 

      Manto, Mario; Adamaszek, Michael; Apps, Richard; Carlson, Erik; Guarque-Chabrera, Julian; Heleven, Elien; Kakei, Shinji; Khodakhah, Kamran; Kuo, Sheng-Han; Lin, Chi-Ying; Joshua, Mati; MIQUEL, MARTA; Mitoma, Hiroshi; Larry, Noga; Péron, Julie Anne; Pickford, Jasmine; Schutter, Dennis; Singh, Manpreet K.; Tan, Tommy; Tanaka, Hirokazu; tsai, peter; Van Overwalle, Frank; Yamashiro, Kunihiko Springer (2024-05-06)
      Cerebellum is a key-structure for the modulation of motor, cognitive, social and afective functions, contributing to automatic behaviours through interactions with the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia and spinal cord. The ...
    • closedAccess   Dopamine and Food Addiction: Lexicon Badly Needed 

      Salamone, John; Correa, Merce Elsevier (2013-05-01)
      Over the last few years, the concept of food addiction has become a common feature in the scientific literature, as well as the popular press. Nevertheless, the use of the term addiction to describe pathological aspects ...
    • closedAccess   Insulin and Ventral Tegmental Dopamine: What's Impaired and What's Intact? 

      Salamone, John; Correa, Merce Elsevier (2013-04-02)
      Manipulations affecting mesolimbic dopamine transmission exert specific effects on normal and pathological aspects of motivation, altering some functions while sparing others. Labouèbe et al. (2013) show that insulin induced ...
    • openAccess   Low-Affinity/High-Selectivity Dopamine Transport Inhibition Sufficient to Rescue Cognitive Functions in the Aging Rat 

      Lubec, Jana; Hussein, Ahmed M.; Kalaba, Predrag; Feyissa, Daniel Daba; Arias-Sandoval, Edgar; Cybulska-Klosowicz, Anita; Bezu, Mekite; Stojanovic, Tamara; Korz, Volker; Malikovic, Jovana; Aher, Nilima Y.; Zehl, Martin; Dragačević, Vladimir; Leban, Johann Jakob; Sagheddu, Claudia; Wackerlig, Judith; Pistis, Marco; Correa, Merce; Langer, Thierry; Urban, Ernst; Höger, Harald; Lubec, Gert MDPI (2023-03)
      The worldwide increase in cognitive decline, both in aging and with psychiatric disorders, warrants a search for pharmacological treatment. Although dopaminergic treatment approaches represent a major step forward, current ...
    • closedAccess   Nucleus accumbens and effort-related functions: behavioral and neural markers of the interactions between adenosine A2A and dopamine D2 receptors 

      Farrar, Andrew M.; Segovia, Kristen N.; Randall, Patrick A.; Nunes, Eric J.; Collins, Lyndsey E.; Stopper, Colin M.; Port, Russell G.; Hockemeyer, J.; Müller, Christa E.; Correa, Merce; Salamone, John Elsevier (2010-04)
      Nucleus accumbens dopamine (DA) is a critical component of the brain circuitry regulating work output in reinforcement-seeking behavior and effort-related choice behavior. Moreover, there is evidence of an interaction ...
    • openAccess   Relevance of the anterior cingulate cortex volume and personality in motivated physical activity behaviors 

      Miró-Padilla, Anna; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Cherednichenko, Anastasia; Monzonís-Carda, Irene; Beltran Valls, Maria Reyes; Moliner-Urdiales, Diego; Avila, Cesar Springer Nature (2023-10-31)
      Some recent theories about the origins and maintenance of regular physical activity focus on the rewards of the properties of practicing this activity. Animal and human studies have demonstrated that mesolimbic dopamine ...
    • openAccess   Reward network connectivity “at rest” is associated with reward sensitivity in healthy adults: A resting-state fMRI study 

      Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Springer (2019)
      The behavioral approach system (BAS), based on reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST), is a neurobehavioral system responsible for detecting and promoting motivated behaviors towards appetitive stimuli. Anatomically, the ...