The SEEKING mind: Primal neuro-affective substrates for appetitive incentive states and their pathological dynamics in addictions and depression

@article{Alcaro2011TheSM,
  title={The SEEKING mind: Primal neuro-affective substrates for appetitive incentive states and their pathological dynamics in addictions and depression},
  author={Antonio Alcaro and J. Panksepp},
  journal={Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews},
  year={2011},
  volume={35},
  pages={1805-1820}
}
  • Antonio Alcaro, J. Panksepp
  • Published 2011
  • Psychology, Medicine
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
    • Appetitive motivation and incentive states are essential functions sustained by a common emotional brain process, the SEEKING disposition, which drives explorative and approach behaviors, sustains goal-directed activity, promotes anticipatory cognitions, and evokes feelings of positive excitement which control reward-learning. All such functions are orchestrated by the same "archetypical" neural processes, activated in ancient subcortical areas and transported to the forebrain by the mesolimbic… CONTINUE READING
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