Editorial: Beyond Reward: Insights from Love and Addiction

Frontiers in Psychology

Xiaochu Zhang¹ 

关键词: addiction;    love;    fMRI;    EEG;    reward system;    sex;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01776

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Rewarding stimuli promoting the learning of goal-directed behaviors tend to produce positive emotions, and subsequently repetition of those learned behaviors. Some kinds of drugs and behaviors are highly rewarding, and thereby, control human behavior by generating a state called addiction. The core feature of this state is compulsive behavior despite negative consequences. Addiction on a neurobiological level increases dopamine in the reward system and this is believed to underlie the rewarding effects. Large amount of studies in addiction have focused on the midbrain dopamine areas. Indeed, several researchers have defined addiction a disease of the reward system.

【 授权许可】

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