Decision Neuroscience
- 2nd Edition - December 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editor: Jean-Claude Dreher
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 2 1 2 - 5
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Decision Neuroscience: An Integrative Perspective presents the most recent and compelling lesional, neuroimaging, electrophysiological, and computational studies, in combination… Read more
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Decision Neuroscience: An Integrative Perspective presents the most recent and compelling lesional, neuroimaging, electrophysiological, and computational studies, in combination with hormonal and genetic studies, which have led to a clearer understanding of the neural mechanisms behind reward and decision making. The neural bases of reward and decision-making processes are of critical interest to scientists because of the fundamental role that reward plays in a number of behavioral processes (such as motivation learning, and cognition), and because the neural bases have theoretical and clinical implications for understanding dysfunctions of the dopaminergic system in several neurological and psychiatric disorders. This book will constitute a comprehensive update of ground-breaking work addressing fundamental questions about the nature of behavior: how does the brain process reward and how does it make decisions when facing multiple options? And will feature entirely new content, as well as expanded coverage on drug and behavioral addiction, the role of subthalamus stimulation in neurological disorders and neuroeconomics.
• Provides comprehensive coverage of approaches to studying reward and decision making, including primate neurophysiology and brain-imaging studies in healthy humans and in various disorders, genetic and hormonal influences on the reward system, and computational models.
• Discusses clinical implications of process dysfunction, including schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, eating disorders, drug addiction, and pathological gambling.
• Uses multiple levels of analysis, from molecular mechanisms to neural systems dynamics and computational models.
• Discusses clinical implications of process dysfunction, including schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, eating disorders, drug addiction, and pathological gambling.
• Uses multiple levels of analysis, from molecular mechanisms to neural systems dynamics and computational models.
Established researchers, undergraduate and graduate students in cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, systems neuroscience, model-based neuroimaging, computational neuroscience, probabilistic models of decision making.
Preface PART ONE: ANIMAL STUDIES ON REWARDS, PUNISHMENTS AND DECISION MAKING CHAPTER 1. Anatomy and connectivity of the reward circuit. CHAPTER 2. Electrophysiological correlates of reward processing in dopamine neurons. CHAPTER 3. Representations of appetitive and aversive information in the primate. CHAPTER 4. Ventral Striatum involved in appetitive and aversive motivational processes. CHAPTER 5. Reward and decision encoding in Basal Ganglia: insights from optogenetics studies in rodents. CHAPTER 6. The neural bases of the learning and motivational processes that control goal-directed behavior. CHAPTER 7. Delayed choice and Impulse control disorders in rodents. CHAPTER 8. Prefrontal cortex and decision making. PART TWO: HUMAN STUDIES ON MOTIVATION, PERCEPTUAL AND VALUE-BASED DECISION MAKING CHAPTER 9. Reward, value and salience CHAPTER 10. Computational principles of value coding in the brain. CHAPTER 11. Spatiotemporal characteristics of perceptual decision making in the human brain CHAPTER 12. Perceptual decision making CHAPTER 13. Neural circuit mechanisms of economic decision-making CHAPTER 14. Decision making under uncertainty. CHAPTER 15. Insights on how attention and information integration guide decisions. CHAPTER 16. Cognitive Map: Novel Decision-Making Beyond Experiences, and introduction to Multivariate approaches. CHAPTER 17. Deep Learning and value-based decision making CHAPTER 18. Reward Learning Signals and Computational models of Mood Fluctuations- CHAPTER 19. How are decisions shaped by past experience? PART THREE: SOCIAL DECISION NEUROSCIENCE CHAPTER 20. Neuroethology of social behavior. CHAPTER 21. Organization of the social brain in macaques and humans. – CHAPTER 22. The neural bases of of social influence on valuation and behavior. CHAPTER 23. Neural Circuit Mechanism of Social Hierarchy. CHAPTER 24. Reinforcement learning and strategic reasoning during social decision making CHAPTER 25. Neural control of social decisions. CHAPTER 26. The neuroscience of social emotions and prosocial behaviour CHAPTER 27. Neurocomputational approaches for moral decision making: from adolescents to older adults CHAPTER 28. Counterfactual thinking CHAPTER 29. Intergroup conflicts and coordination failures PART FOUR: HUMAN CLINICAL STUDIES INVOLVING DYSFUNCTIONS OF REWARD AND DECISION MAKING PROCESSES CHAPTER 30. Reinforcement learning in schizophrenia CHAPTER 31. A neuropsychological perspective on the role of the prefrontal cortex in value-based decision-making CHAPTER 32. Reward and Punishment Learning: Deficit in pathology of Basal Ganglia. CHAPTER 33. Impulse control disorders (ICD) in Parkinson’s disease. CHAPTER 34. The subthalamic nucleus in impulsivity. CHAPTER 35. Anxiety disorders and decision making. CHAPTER 36. Neuroimaging findings on pathological gambling and behavioral addictions- CHAPTER 37. Contributions to computational psychiatry CHAPTER 38. Neurocomputational models related to social controllability PART FIVE: GENETIC AND HORMONAL INFLUENCES ON MOTIVATION AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR CHAPTER 39. Decision making in fish: genetics and social behavior CHAPTER 40. Imaging genetics in humans CHAPTER 41. Steroid hormones and neuropeptides effects on socio-emotional processing: insights from neuroimaging studies CHAPTER 42. Oxytocin, social cognition and autism-- CHAPTER 43. Appetite as motivated choice: hormonal and environmental influences CHAPTER 44. Perspectives PART SIX: NEUROMODULATIONS OF REWARD AND DECISION MAKING CHAPTER 45. Roles of dopamine, noradrenaline and serotonin on reward learning cognitive flexibility. CHAPTER 46. Pharmacological manipulations of Moral decision making CHAPTER 47. Pharmacological modulations of belief updating CHAPTER 48. Nutrition impacts individual and social decisions CHAPTER 49. Computational functions of neuromodulators on reward learning and decision making. PART SEVEN: Advanced computational models of decision making: insights from Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning CHAPTER 50. Interactions between multiple decision-making systems. CHAPTER 51. AI approaches to encourage group cooperation. CHAPTER 52. Models of Theory of mind during cooperation and competition CHAPTER 53. Evolution of cooperation in stochastic games CHAPTER 54. Neurocomputational mechanisms engaged in decision to spread information through social networks
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: December 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Jean-Claude Dreher
Dr Jean-Claude Dreher (research director, CNRS, http://dreherteam.cnc.isc.cnrs.fr/en/). Dr Dreher is the director of the Neuroeconomics, Reward and Decision making team at the 'Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives' (Lyon, France). He studied Mathematics, psychopathology and Cognitive Neuroscience in Paris. The general approach of his research group is to characterize the brain mechanisms underlying motivation and decision making in healthy subjects and to study neurological and psychiatric disorders in which these mechanisms are dysfunctional. He received two Fellow Awards for Research Excellence at the NIH. He is the author of around 40 research papers and the editor of the 'Handbook of Reward and Decision Making' (Academic PRess, Elsevier, 2009). His research has been highlighted in major scientific journals (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, PNAS, TiCS) and featured in a international media (newspapers, radio and TV programs).
Affiliations and expertise
director of the Neuroeconomics, Reward and Decision making team at the 'Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives' (Lyon, France)