Handbook of Reward and Decision Making

This book addresses what makes us human and unique by asking the question: How does the brain process reward and make decisions when faced with multiple options? This book will help neuroscientists better understand neural mechanisms underlying reward and decision making

Jean-Claude Dreher (Edited by), Léon Tremblay (Edited by)

9780123746207

Hardback, published 30 July 2009

526 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 3.1 cm, 0.99 kg

Approx.510 pages

Part I presents basic anatomical and electrophysiological findings in animals on the contribution of specific brain structures in reinforcement-guided decision-making.

Part II concerns brain imaging studies on reward and decision making.

Part III covers brain disorders involving dysfunctions of decision-making and of the reward system, such as addiction, psychosis, pathological gambling, Parkinson's disease and lesions of the prefrontal cortex.

Part IV analyzes the influences of hormones and of different genes involved in dopamine transmission on reward and decision making processing.

Part V presents computational approaches on decision-making and on the roles of dopamine in the brain, combining Bayesian, game theory and neuroeconomics models.

Subject Areas: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]