NIH R01 · 2024
Affective neuroscience of taste reactivity
Project Summary/Abstract: Positive affective reactions (i.e., ‘liking’) to pleasant life events are crucial to healthy psychological function and well-being. Conversely, pathological hedonic dysfunction in ‘liking’ circuitry can cause loss of positive affect (anhedonia), and excessive negative affect (dysphoria). These affective dysfunctions have devastating consequences in mood disorders, such as major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc. It is therefore crucial to understand how normal brain affective mechanisms generate positive ‘liking’ reactions, and how dysfunction in brain ‘liking’ circuitry causes intense negative dysphoric affective reactions, in order to develop…
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