Description

Since its discovery in the 1960s, a vast and wide-ranging body of research has accumulated about the dopaminergic system. Life’s Rewards: Linking Dopamine, Incentive Learning, Schizophrenia, and the Mind offers a broad synthesis of our current understanding of this chemical, addressing, amongst others, its intricate relationship with learning and memory, psychopathology, social co-operation, and drug abuse.

Aimed at students and researchers in neuroscience and psychology, Life’s Rewards: Linking Dopamine, Incentive Learning, Schizophrenia, and the Mind is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between dopamine and reward-related incentive learning.

Author: Beninger, Richard J

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 198824092
Language: English
Pages: 496