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The 21 pages that link to Reward system, each with the reason it gives.

• MotivationRelated: Neuroscience examines how reward learning relates to wanting, pleasure, and persistent pursuit.

• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorderRelated: Differences in reward processing may help account for altered delay and motivation patterns in ADHD.

• Basal gangliaRelated: Striatal regions connect action selection with reward-driven learning and motivation.

• AppetiteRelated: Food reward can generate appetite even when energy needs are met.

• DesireRelated: Reward-related processes help shape desires and reinforce actions that satisfy them.

• AddictionNarrower topic: Addictive substances and behaviors can strongly engage pathways involved in motivation and reward learning.

• Sexual desireRelated: Anticipated pleasure and reward can contribute to sexual motivation.

• AnhedoniaNarrower topic: Its disrupted function can reduce pleasure, motivation, or both.

• ManiaRelated: Heightened reward pursuit and confidence during mania connect symptoms to these circuits.

• IncentiveNarrower topic: Incentives can influence action through the brain systems that assign value to outcomes.

• Impulse control disorderRelated: Immediate rewards can strengthen behaviors that persist despite later harm.

• Limbic systemRelated: Its motivational functions overlap with structures commonly included in limbic circuitry.

• SchadenfreudeNarrower topic: Neuroimaging studies associate pleasure at a rival’s failure with reward-related activity.

• AlcoholismNarrower topic: Alcohol can reinforce drinking by altering reward and motivation circuits.

• Love (emotion)Narrower topic: Reward processes help explain why loved people can become powerful sources of motivation.

• OrexinNarrower topic: Orexin links arousal to motivated behavior, including responses to rewarding cues.

• EndorphinsRelated: How endorphins shape reward and motivation remains harder to isolate than receptor binding.

• PleasureNarrower topic: Its activity helps explain how rewarding experiences can produce pleasure and guide behavior.

• Psychological dependenceNarrower topic: Reward learning helps explain how pleasurable effects can reinforce repeated use.

• NeuroeconomicsNarrower topic: Its circuits encode anticipated value and influence choices between options.

• NeuroestheticsRelated: Pleasure in art can recruit reward-related processes, including responses to beauty and expectation.