
Handbook of Reward and Decision Making
- 1st Edition - June 4, 2009
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Jean-Claude Dreher, Léon Tremblay
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 7 4 6 2 0 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 2 3 4 8 - 2
This book addresses a fundamental question about the nature of behavior: how does the brain process reward and makes decisions when facing multiple options? The book presents the… Read more

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Request a sales quote- 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.
- Covers clinical implications of process dysfunction (e.g., schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, eating disorders, drug addiction, pathological gambling)
- Uses multiple levels of analysis, from molecular mechanisms to neural systems dynamics and computational models.
" This is a very interesting and authoritative handbook by some of the most outstanding investigators in the field of reward and decision making ", Professor Edmund T. Rolls, Oxford Center for Computational Neuroscience, UK
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.
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 4, 2009
- No. of pages (Hardback): 526
- No. of pages (eBook): 526
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780123746207
- eBook ISBN: 9780080923482
JD
Jean-Claude Dreher
LT
Léon Tremblay
Léon Tremblay spends much of his time researching Neuroscience, Basal ganglia, Premovement neuronal activity, Striatum and Orbitofrontal cortex. His works in Primate and Prefrontal cortex are all subjects of inquiry into Neuroscience. His Basal ganglia research incorporates themes from Caudate nucleus, Dopamine and Putamen.
His study in Striatum is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Dentate nucleus, Cerebrum and Reward system. Brain stimulation reward and Curiosity is closely connected to Cognitive psychology in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Orbitofrontal cortex. His work investigates the relationship between Globus pallidus and topics such as MPTP that intersect with problems in Parkinsonism and Neurotoxin.
His most cited work include:- Relative reward preference in primate orbitofrontal cortex (1126 citations)
- Reward Processing in Primate Orbitofrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia (792 citations)
- The cerebellum communicates with the basal ganglia. (569 citations)