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 | Kent Berridge
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America | | | Faculty Member: Neuroscience > Behavioural Neuroscience [ since 9 February 2005 ] |
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Kent Berridge is James Olds Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA).
Research by Berridge and colleagues aims to answer fundamental questions:
-How is pleasure generated in the brain?
-What are the neural bases of reward wanting and reward liking?
-How are rewards learned & used by brain systems?
-What causes addiction?
-What do particular brain limbic systems do?
-How do neural substrates of fear relate to those of desire?
-Can an emotion ever be truly unconscious?
-How are complex streams of real behavior produced by brains?
-What goes wrong in action disorders (Parkinson's, OCD, Tourette's)?
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~berridge/ |
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