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Independent inhibitory control mechanisms for aggressive motivation and action
Social behaviors often consist of a motivational phase followed by action. Here we show that neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus ventrolateral...
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Sex-dependent effects of acute stress in adolescence or adulthood on appetitive motivation
RationaleIntensely stressful experiences can lead to long-lasting changes in appetitive and aversive behaviors. In humans, post-traumatic stress...
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Sexual Incentive Motivation
Motivation can be described as the processes that activate, direct, and determine the persistence of goal-directed behavior. A certain level of...
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Motivation-related influences on fNIRS signals during walking exercise: a permutation entropy approach
Cortical activity is typically indexed by analyzing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals in terms of the mean (e.g., mean oxygenated...
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A neural substrate of sex-dependent modulation of motivation
While there is emerging evidence of sex differences in decision-making behavior, the neural substrates that underlie such differences remain largely...
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Sex differences in the social motivation of rats: Insights from social operant conditioning, behavioural economics, and video tracking
BackgroundSocial behaviour plays a key role in mental health and wellbeing, and developing greater understanding of mechanisms underlying social...
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Uncovering the neurophysiology of mood, motivation and behavioral symptoms in Parkinson’s disease through intracranial recordings
Neuropsychiatric mood and motivation symptoms (depression, anxiety, apathy, impulse control disorders) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are highly...
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Emotion, motivation, decision-making, the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and the amygdala
The orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala are involved in emotion and in motivation, but the relationship between these functions performed by these...
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Publics’ knowledge of, attitude to and motivation towards health-related genomics: a scoping review
The use of genomic data in research and genomic information in clinical care is increasing as technologies advance and sequencing costs decrease....
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Prediction of cervical cancer screening: application of the information-motivation-behavioral skills model
IntroductionScreening is an effective method for preventing cervical cancer. The present study aimed to determine the predictability of cervical...
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Early resource scarcity alters motivation for natural rewards in a sex- and reinforcer-dependent manner
RationaleEarly life adversity impacts reward-related behaviors, including reward seeking for drugs of abuse. However, the effects of early stress on...
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Effect of a short video on patients’ motivation for dose reduction or cessation of hypnotics
Recently, addiction to regular doses of hypnotics has become a problem. While many patients report a desire to reduce their dosage, many do not agree...
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Obese-associated gut microbes and derived phenolic metabolite as mediators of excessive motivation for food reward
BackgroundExcessive hedonic consumption is one of the main drivers for weight gain. Identifying contributors of this dysregulation would help to...
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Cocaine-induced plasticity, motivation, and cue responsivity do not differ in obesity-prone vs obesity-resistant rats; implications for food addiction
RationaleCompared to obesity-resistant rats, obesity-prone rats consume more food, work harder to obtain food, show greater motivational responses to...
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Are the main effects of the will to exist, live, survive and fight on optimizing executive function due to its optimizing self-motivation? A longitudinal study
The study aims to identify the mechanisms underlying the findings that will to exist, live, survive and fight (WTELS-F) optimizes executive...
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α-Dystrobrevin knockout mice have increased motivation for appetitive reward and altered brain cannabinoid receptor 1 expression
α-Dystrobrevin (α-DB) is a major component of the dystrophin-associated protein complex (DAPC). Knockout (KO) of α-DB in the brain is associated with...
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EGR3 regulates opioid-related nociception and motivation in male rats
Chronic pain can be a debilitating condition, leading to profound changes in nearly every aspect of life. However, the reliance on opioids such as...
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Emotion, Motivation, Personality and Their Neurobiological Foundations
In this chapter we will deal with three basic components of the human psyche: emotions or feelings, motivation and personality. In the spirit of...
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Metabotropic glutamate group II receptor activation in the ventrolateral dorsal striatum suppresses incentive motivation for cocaine in rats
RationaleAfter a history of intermittent cocaine intake, rats develop patterns of drug use characteristic of substance use disorder. The dorsal...
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Pharmacological characterisation of the effort for reward task as a measure of motivation for reward in male mice
RationaleMotivational deficits are a common symptom shared across multiple psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Effort-based decision-making...
