Publications

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• Morales, I. & Berridge, K.C.  Optogenetic hedonic hotspots in orbitofrontal cortex and insula: Causing enhancement of sweetness ‘liking’. Journal of Neuroscience (2026): e0865252026.  
• Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C.  Can the incentive-sensitization theory of addiction incorporate addiction to opioid drugs?    Psychopharmacology, (2026).
• Murata, K. & Berridge, K.C.  Hedonic hotspot in rat olfactory tubercle: Map for mu-opioid, orexin, and muscimol enhancement of sucrose ‘liking’. Neuropsychopharmacology  (2026).     
• Nguyen, D. & Berridge, K.C.  Wanting what hurts: D1 dopamine neuronal stimulation in CeA is sufficient to induce maladaptive attraction. Communications Biology. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08944-6 (2025)
• Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C.  The incentive sensitization theory of addiction 30 years on.  Annual Review of Psychology, 76: 29-58 (2025).
• Berridge, K.C.  The emotional life of animals. Cognition and Emotion (2025).
• Pecina, S. & Berridge, K.C.  Brain mechanisms of food “liking” and “wanting”. In Hedonic Eating (2nd Edition; N.M. Avena, Ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 120-128 (2025).
• Berridge, K.C. Drug cues trigger hyperreactivity in heroin users. American J. Psychiatry (2024).
• Berridge, K.C.  Separating desire from prediction of outcome value.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27 (10), 932-946  (2023).
• Berridge, K.C. Is addiction a brain disease?  The incentive sensitization view.  In Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (Heather, Field, Moss & Satel, Eds.), Routledge (2022).
• Baldo, B.A & Berridge, K.C.  Mapping causal generators of appetitive motivation-hedonic functions in frontal cortex.  Neuropsychopharmacology 47, 415–416 (2022). PMC8617043
• Baumgartner, H. M., Granillo, M., Schulkin, J., & Berridge, K. C. Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) systems: Promoting cocaine pursuit without distress via incentive motivation. PLOS ONE, 17 (5), e0267345 (2022).
• Baumgartner, H. M., Schulkin, J., & Berridge, K. C. Activating corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) systems in nucleus accumbens, amygdala, and bed nucleus of stria terminalis: Incentive motivation or aversive motivation? Biological Psychiatry, (2021).
• Warlow, S.M. & Berridge, K.C.  Incentive motivation: ‘Wanting’ roles of central amygdala circuitry. Behavioral Brain Research, 411, 113376, (2021).
• Nguyen, D., Naffziger, E.M., Berridge, K.C.  Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting.  Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 39:72-78 (2021).
• Berridge, K. C., & Dayan, P.  Liking – Quick guide. Current Biology, 31(24), R1555-R1557, (2021). 
• Baldo, B.A & Berridge, K.C.  Mapping causal generators of appetitive motivation-hedonic functions in frontal cortex.  Neuropsychopharmacology 47, 415–416 (2022). PMC8617043
• Baumgartner, H.M., Naffziger, E.E. , Nguyen D., Berridge, K.C.   Incentive Salience in Irrational Miswanting and Extreme Motivation. Chapter in The Psychology of Extremism (Kruglanski, A.W., Kopetz, C.  Szumowska, E., Eds.), 15-33 (2021).
• Dukes, D., Abrams, K., Adolphs, R., Ahmed, M. E., Beatty, A., Berridge, K. C., et al. The rise of affectivism. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(7), 816-820 (2021).      
• Berridge, K.C.  (2021) Comment on Vandaele and Ahmed: Rethinking habits in addiction. Neuropsychopharmacology. 46, 687–688 (2021)  
• Warlow, S.M., Naffziger, E.E., & Berridge, K.C. (2020).  Central amygdala recruits mesocorticolimbic circuitry for pursuit of reward or pain.  Nature Communications, 11(1):2716.
• Morales, I. & Berridge, K.C. (2020). ‘Liking’ and ‘wanting’ in eating and food reward: Brain mechanisms and clinical implications.  Physiology & Behavior, 227: 113152.
• Baumgartner, H. M., Cole, S. L., Olney, J. J., & Berridge, K. C. (2020). Desire or Dread from Nucleus Accumbens Inhibitions: Reversed by Same-Site Optogenetic Excitations. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(13), 2737-2752.
• Urstadt, K. R., & Berridge, K. C. (2020). Optogenetic mapping of feeding and self-stimulation within the lateral hypothalamus of the rat. PLoS One, 15(1), e0224301.
• Khan, H.A., Urstadt, K.R., Mostovoi, N.A. et al. Mapping excessive “disgust” in the brain: Ventral pallidum inactivation recruits distributed circuitry to make sweetness “disgusting”. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 20, 141–159 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-019-00758-4
• Warlow, S.M., Freeland, C.M., Erin E Naffziger, E.E., Jeffrey J Olney, J.J., Berridge, K.C.,  Robinson M.J.F. (2020).  Sensitization of incentive salience and the transition to addiction. Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions. Cambridge University Press, pp. 23-37 (2020) .
• Bechara, A., Berridge, K. C., Bickel, W. K., Morón, J. A., Williams, S. B., & Stein, J. S. (2019). A neurobehavioral approach to addiction: Implications for the opioid epidemic and the psychology of addiction. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 20(2), 96–127. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100619860513
• Berridge, K. C. (2019). A Liking Versus Wanting Perspective on Emotion and the Brain. The Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology, 184.
• Berridge, K.C. Affective valence in the brain: modules or modes? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 20, 225-234, 2019.
• Berridge, K.C. A liking versus wanting perspective on emotion and the brain. In The Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology (J. Gruber, Ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 184-196, 2019.
• Cole, S.L., Robinson, M.J.F., & Berridge, K.C. Optogenetic self-stimulation in the nucleus accumbens: D1 reward versus D2 ambivalence. PLoS One 13(11): e0207694, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207694
• Berridge, K.C. Evolving concepts of emotion and motivation. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1647, 1-20, 2018.
• Mitchell, M.R., Berridge, K.C., & Mahler, S.V. Endocannabinoid enhanced ‘liking’ in nuleus accumbens shell hedonic hotspot requires endogenous opioid signals. Cannabis & Cannabinoid Research 3, 1666-170, 2018.
• Olney, J.J. & Warlow, S.M., & Naffziger, E.E. & Berridge, K.C. Current perspectives on incentive salience and applications to clinical disorders. Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences, 22: 59-69, 2018.
• Badiani, A. Berridge, K.C., Heilig, M., Nutt, D.J., & Robinson, T.E. Addiction research and theory: a commentary on the Surgeon General’s Report on alcohol, drugs and health. Addiction Biology, 23(1), 3-5, 2018.
• Castro, D.C. & Berridge, K.C. Opioid and orexin hedonic hotspots in rat orbitofrontal cortex and insula. Proceedings of the National Academy of Scences. Online early doi: 10.1073/pnas.170575311r, 2017.Version with supplemental materials.
• Warlow, S.M., Robinson, M.J.F,. & Berridge, K.C. Optogenetic central amydala stimulation intensifies and narrows motivation for cocaine.Journal of Neuroscience, 37(35), 8330-8348, 2017.
• Berridge, K.C. Is addiction a brain disease? Neuroethics. 10(1), pp 29-33, 2017.
• Holton, R. & Berridge, K. Compulsion and choice in addiction. In Addiction and Choice: Rethinking the Relationship. (N. Heather & G. Segal, Eds.) Oxford University Press, pp 153-170, 2017.
• Kringelbach, M.L. & Berridge, K.C. The affective core of emotion: Linking pleasure, subjective well-being, and optimal metastability in the brain. Emorion Review, 9(3), 191-199 (2017).
• Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. Liking, wanting, and the incentive-sensitization theory of addiction. American Psychologist, 7(8), 670-679, 2016.     DOI link to authoritative document:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000059
• Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K. C.. Beyond Wise et al.: Neuroleptic-induced “anhedonia” in rats: Pimozide blocks reward quality of food. In Brain and Behavior: Revisiting the Classic Studies . (B. Kolb & I. Whishaw, Eds.) Sage Publications, pp 190-200, 2017.
• Kringelbach, M.L. & Berridge, K.C. Neuroscience of reward, motivation and drive. In The Recent Developments in Neuroscience Research on Human Motivation, (S-i. Kim, Reeve, & Bong, Eds.). Emerald Group Publishing, pp. 23-35 (2016).
• Berridge, K.C . APA award for distinguished scientific contributions: Kent C. Berridge. American Psychologist, 7(8), 667-669, 2016.
• DiFeliceantonio, A. G.. & Berridge, K.C. Dorsolateral neostriatum contribution to incentive salience: Opioid or dopamine stimulation makes one reward cue more motivationally attractive than another. European Journal of Neuroscience, 43, 1203-1218, 2016.
• Castro, D.C., Terry, R.A., & Berridge, K.C. Orexin in rostral hotspot of nucleus accumbens enhances sucrose ‘liking’ and intake but scopolamine in caudal shell shifts ‘liking’ toward ‘disgust’ and ‘fear’. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41, 2101-2111, 2016.
• Itoga, C.A., Berridge, K.C & Aldridge, J.W. Ventral pallidal coding of a learned taste aversion. Behavioural Brain Research, 300, 175-183, 2016.
• Kalueff, A.V., Stewart, A.M., Song, C., Berridge, K.C., Graybiel, A.M., & Fentress, J.C. Neurobiology of rodent self-grooming and its value for translational neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17 45-59, 2016.
• Song, C., Berridge, K.C., & Kalueff, A.V. “Stressing” rodent self-grooming for neuroscience research. (reply to comment) Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17 591, 2016.
• Berridge, K.C & Kringelbach, M.L. Pleasure systems in the brain. Neuron, 86, 646-664, 2015.
• Robinson, M.J.F., Burghardt, P.R., Patterson, C.M., Nobile, C.W., Akil, H. Watson, S.J., Berridge, K.C. & Ferrio, C.R. Individual differences in cue-induced motivation and striatal systems in rats susceptible to diet-induced obesity. Neuropsychopharmacology, 40: 2113-2123,2015.
• Castro, D.C., Cole, S.L. & Berridge, K.C. Lateral hypothalamus, nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum roles in eating and hunger: interactions between homeostatic and reward circuitry. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 9:90. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00090 . 2015.
• Robinson, M.J.F., Anselme, P., Suchomel, K., & Berridge, K.C. Amphetamine-induced sensitization and reward uncertainty simiilarly enhance incentive salience for conditioned cues. Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015. DOI link to authoritative document:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000064
• Robinson, M.J.F. & Berridge, K.C. Wanting versus needing. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (J.D. Wright, Ed.), 2nd ed., Vol 25. Oxford: Elsevier. pp 351-356, 2015.
• Kringelbach, M.L. & Berridge, K.C. Motivation and pleasure in the brain. In The Psychology of Desire (W. Hofmann & L.F. Jordgren, Eds.), Guilford, pp. 129-145, 2015.
• Seeley, R.J. & Berridge, K.C. The hunger games. Cell, 160, 805-806, 2015. [Commentary on ].
• Robinson, M.J.F., Warlow, S.M. & Berridge, K.C. Optogenetic excitation of central amydala amplifies and narrows incentive motivation to pursue one reward over another. Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 16567-16580, 2014.
• Ho, C.-Y. & Berridge, K.C. Excessive disgust caused by brain lesions or temporary inactivations: mapping hotspots of the nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum. European Journal of Neuroscience, 40, 3556-3572, 2014.
• Castro, D.C. & Berridge, K.C. Opioid Hedonic hotspot in nucleus accumbens shell: Mu, delta, and kappa map for enhancement of sweetness ‘liking’ and ‘wanting’. Journal of Neuroscience, 31: 4239-4250, 2014.
• Robinson, M.J.F., Anselm, P., Fischer, A.M. & Berridge, K.C. Initial uncertainty in Pavlovian reward prediction persistently elevates incentive salience and extends sign-tracking to normally unattractive cues. Behavioural Brain Research, 266, 119-130, 2014.
• Castro, D.C. & Berridge, K.C. Advances in the neurobiological bases for food ‘liking’ and ‘wanting’. Physiology & Behavior, 136, 22-30, 2014.
• Dayan, P. & Berridge, K.C. Model-based and model-free Pavlovian reward learning: revaluation, revision and revelation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 14: 473-492, 2014.
• Berridge, K.C & O’Doherty, J.P. From experienced utility to decision utility. In Neuroeconomics: Decisions and the brain (2nd edition). P. Glimcher & E. Fehr (Eds.), Academic Press, pp. 335-354, 2014.
• Holton, R. & Berridge, K. Addiction between compulsion and choice. In Addiction and self control: Perspectives from philosophy, psychology and neuroscience. N. Levy (Ed.), Oxford University Press, pp.239-268, 2014.
• Robinson, M.J.F. & Berridge, K.C. Instant transformation of learned repulsion into motivational “wanting.” Current Biology. 23, 282-289, 2013.
• Ho, C.-Y. & Berridge, K.C. An orexin hotspot in ventral pallidum amplifies hedonic ‘liking’ for sweetness. Neuropsychopharmacology, 38, 1655-1664, 2013.
• Pecina, S. & Berridge, K.C Dopamine or opioid stimulation of nucleus accumbens similarly amplify cue-triggered ‘wanting’ for reward: entire core and medial shell mapped as substrates for PIT enhancement. European Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 1529-1540, 2013.
• Richard, J.M., Plawecki, A.M. & Berridge, K.C. Nucleus accumbens GABAergic inhibition generates intense eating and fear that resists environmental retuning and needs no local dopamine. European Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 1789-1802, 2013.
• Berridge, K.C & Kringelbach, M.L. Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 23: 294-303, 2013.
• Berridge, K.C & Kringelbach, M.L. Toward a neuroscience of well-being: implications of insights from pleasure research. In Human happiness and the purusit of maximization, (H. Brockmann & J. Delhey, Eds.) Springer, pp. 81-100, 2013.
• Robinson, M.J.F., Robinson, T.E., & Berridge, K.C. Incentive salience and the transition to addiction. In Biological Research on Addiction (P. Miller, Ed.), Academic Press, pp. 391-399, 2013.
• Richard, J.M., Castro, D.C., DiFeliceantonio, A.G., Robinson, M.J.F. &Berridge, K.C. Mapping brain circuits of reward and motivation: in the footsteps of Ann Kelley. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37, 1919-1931, 2013.
• Anselme, P., Robinson, M.J.F. & Berridge, K.C. Reward uncertainty enhances incentive salience attribution as sign-tracking. Behavioural Brain Research, 238: 53-61, 2013.
• Richard, J.M. & Berridge, K.C. Prefrontal cortex modulates desire and dread generated by nucleus accumbens glutamate disruption.Biological Psychiatry,72, 360-370, 2013.
• Berridge, K.C & Kringelbach, M.L. Toward a neuroscience of well-being: implications of insights from pleasure research. In Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization. Edited by H. Brockmann & J. Delhey. pp. 81-100, Springer, Netherlands, 2013.
• DiFeliceantonio, A. G., Mabrouk, O.S., Kennedy R.T. & Berridge, K.C. Enkephalin surges in dorsal neostriatum as a signal to eat. Current Biology, 22, 1918-1924, 2012.
• Kringelbach, M.L. & Berridge, K.C. The joyful mind. Scientific American,307(2), 40-45, August 2012.
• Berridge, K.C. From prediction error to incentive salience: mesolimbic computation of reward motivation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 1124-1143, 2012. (EJN interview video:)
• DiFeliceantonio, A. G. & Berridge, K.C. Which cue to ‘want’? Opioid stimulation of central amygdala makes goal-trackers show stronger goal-tracking, just as sign-trackers show stronger sign-tracking. Behavioural Brain Research, 230, 399-408, 2012.
• Mahler, S.V. & Berridge, K.C. What and when to ‘want’? Amygdala-based focusing of incentive salience upon sugar and sex. Psychopharmacology, 221, 401-426, 2012.
• Zhang J., Berridge, K.C., & Aldridge, J.W. Computational models of incentive salience in addiction: dynamic limbic transfomation of learning into motivation. In Computational Neuroscience of Drug addiction. Edited by B. Gutkin & S.H. Ahmed. Springer, pp. 189-204, 2012.
• Ahmed, S. Avena, N.M., Berridge, K.C. Gearhardt, A. & Guillem, K. Food addiction. In D.W. Pfaff (ed.), Neuroscience in the 21st Century. DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1997-6_110 , Springer, 2012.
• Berridge, K.C. Contributions of Philip Teitelbaum to affective neuroscience. Behavioural Brain Research, 231, 396-403, 2012.
• Richard, J.M. & Berridge, K.C. Nucleus accumbens dopamine/glutamate interaction switches modes to generate desire versus dread: D1 for appetitive eating but D1 and D2 together for fear. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(36):12866 – 12879, 2011.
• Smith, K.S., Berridge, K.C. & Aldridge, J.W. Disentangling pleasure from incentive salience and learning signals in brain reward circuitry. PNAS Plus, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 108(27) E255-264, 2011. (Condensed 2-page summary: ) (Detailed methods and additional figures): 
• Richard, J.M. & Berridge, K.C. Metabotropic glutamate receptor blockade in nucleus accumbens shell shifts affective valence towards fear and disgust. European Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 736-474, 2011.
• Berridge, K.C. & Kringelbach, M.L. Building a neuroscience of pleasure and well-being. Psychology of Well-Being: Theory Research and Practice. 1:3, http://www.psywb.com/content/1/1/3, 2011.
• Kringelbach, M.L. & Berridge, K.C. The neurobiology of pleasure and happiness. In The Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics. Edited by Judy Illes and Barbara J. Sahakian. Oxford University Press, pp. 15-32, 2011.
• Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. Drug addiction as incentive sensitization. In Addiction and Responsibility. Edited by Jeffrey Poland and George Graham. Mit Press, pp. 21-54, 2011.
• Winkielman, P., Berridge, K.C. & Sher, S. Emotion, consciousness and social behavior. In The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience. J. Decety & J. Cacioppo (Eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 195-211, 2011.
• Faure, A., Richard, J.M. & Berridge, K.C. Desire and dread from the nucleus accumbens: Cortical glutamate and subcortical GABA differentially generate motivation and hedonic impact in the rat. PLoS ONE 5(6): e11223.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011223, 2010.
• Berridge, K.C., Ho, C.Y., Richard, J.M., DiFeliceantonio, A.G. The tempted brain eats: Pleasure and desire circuits in obesity and eating disorders. Brain Research, 1350: 43-64, 2010.
• Kringelbach, M.L. & Berridge, K.C. Functional neuroanatomy of pleasure and happiness. Discovery Medicine 9, 579-587, 2010.
• Kringelbach, M.L. & Berridge, K.C. Neuroscience of pleasure and happiness. Social Research 77:2, 659-678, 2010.
• Edited Book:  Morten L. Kringelbach & Kent C. Berridge (Editors) , Pleasures of the Brain,Oxford University Press, 2010.  Table of contents
• Smith, K.S., Mahler, S.V., Pecina, S. & Berridge, K.C. Hedonic hotspots: Generating sensory pleasure in the brain. In Pleasures of the Brain. M.L. Kringelbach & K.C. Berridge (Eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 27-49, 2010.
• Aldridge, J.W. & Berridge, K.C. Neural coding of pleasure: ‘Rose-tinted glasses’ of the ventral pallidum. In Pleasures of the Brain. M.L. Kringelbach & K.C. Berridge (Eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 62-73, 2010.
• Berridge, K.C. Remembering Robert Zajonc: the complete psychologist. Emotion Review, 2010, 2(4), 348-352.
• Taylor, J.L., Rajbhandari, A.K., Berridge, K.C., & Aldridge, J.W. Dopamine receptor modulation of repetitive grooming actions in the rat: Potential relevance for Tourette syndrome. Brain Research, 1322, 92-101, 2010.
• Tindell, A.J., Smith, K.S., Berridge, K.C. & Aldridge, J.W. Dynamic computation of incentive salience: ‘wanting’ what was never ‘liked’.Journal of Neuroscience, 29(39), 12220-12228, 2009.
• Zhang J., Berridge, K.C., Tindell, A.J., Smith, K.S. & Aldridge, J.W. A neural computational model of incentive salience. PLoS_Computational Biology 5(7):e1000437. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000437, 2009.
• Mahler, S.V. & Berridge, K.C. Which cue to ‘want’? Central amygdala opioid activation enhances and focuses incentive salience on a prepotent reward cue. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(20), 6500-6513, 2009.
• Berridge, K.C. ‘Liking’ and ‘wanting’ food rewards: brain substrates and roles in eating disorders. Physiology & Behavior, 97(5), 537-550, 2009.
• Kringelbach, M.L. & Berridge, K.C. Toward a functional neuroanatomy of pleasure and happiness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(11), 479-487, 2009.
• Berridge, K.C., Robinson, T.E. & Aldridge, J.W. Dissecting components of reward: ‘liking’, ‘wanting’, and learning. Current Opinion in Pharmacology, 9, 65-73, 2009.
• Smith, K.S., Tindell, A.J, Aldridge, J.W., & Berridge, K.C. Ventral pallidum roles in reward and motivation. Behavioural Brain Research, 196, 155-167, 2009.
• Berridge, K.C. Wanting and liking: Observations from the neuroscience and psychology laboratory. Inquiry, 52:4, 378-398, 2009.
• Faure, A. Reynolds, S.M., Richard, J.M. & Berridge, K.C. Mesolimbic dopamine in desire and dread: Enabling motivation to be generated by localized glutamate disruptions in nucleus accumbens. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 7184-7192, 2008.
• Reynolds, S.M. & Berridge, K.C. Emotional environments retune the valence of appetitive versus fearful functions in nucleus accumbens. Nature Neuroscience, 11(4), 423-425, 2008. Online supplement: 
• Berridge, K.C. & Kringelbach, M.L. Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals. Psychopharmacology,199, 457-480, 2008.
• Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. The incentive sensitization theory of addiction: some current issues. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363, 3137-3146, 2008.
• Berridge, K.C. & Aldridge, J.W. Decision utility, the brain, and pursuit of hedonic goals. Social Cognition, 26, 621-646, 2008.
• Modified and reprinted as Berridge, K.C. & Aldridge, J.W. Decision utility, incentive salience and cue-triggered ‘wanting’. In Morsella, E., Bargh, J.A., & Gollwitzer, P.M. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Human Action, Oxford University Press, pp. 509-532, 2009.
• Berridge, K.C, Zhang, J. & Aldridge, J.W. Computing motivation: incentive salience boosts of drug or appetite states [comment on Redish et al., A unified framework for addiction]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 440-441, 2008.
• Smith, K.S., & Berridge, K.C. Opioid limbic circuit for reward: interaction between hedonic hotspots of nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(7): 1594-605, 2007.
• Mahler, S.V. Smith, K.S. & Berridge, K.C. Endocannabinoid hedonic hotspot for sensory pleasure: Anandamide in nucleus accumbens shell enhances ‘liking’ of a sweet reward. Neuropsychopharmacology, 32, 2267-2278, 2007.
• Berridge, K.C. The debate over dopamine’s role in reward: the case for incentive salience. Psychopharmacology, 191, 391-431, 2007. 
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• Berridge, K.C.Brain reward systems for food incentives and hedonics in normal appetite and eating disorders. In Appetite and Body Weight. T.C. Kirkham & S.J. Cooper (Eds.), Academic Press, pp. 191-216, 2007.
• Berridge, K.C. Just rewards. Path of discovery feature. In Bear, M.F., Connors, B.W., and Paradiso, M.A., Neuroscience: Expoloring the Brain, 3rd Edition, p. 525, 2007 (scanned pdf).
• Peciña, S., Smith, K.S., & Berridge, K.C. Hedonic hotspots in the brain. The Neuroscientist, 12(6), 500-511, 2006.
• Tindell, A.J., Smith, K.S., Peciña, S., Berridge, K.C., & Aldridge, J.W. Ventral pallidum firing codes hedonic reward: When a bad taste turns good. Journal of Neurophysiology, 96: 2399-2409, 2006.
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• Peciña, S. Schulkin , J., & Berridge, K.C. Nucleus accumbens corticotropin-releasing factor increases cue-triggered motivation for sucrose reward: paradoxical positive incentive effects in stress? BMC Biology 4:8 2006.
• Britton JC, Phan KL, Taylor SF, Welsh RC, Berridge KC, and Liberzon I. Neural correlates of social and nonsocial emotions: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 31(1) 397-409, 2006.
• Britton JC, Taylor SF, Berridge KC, Mikels, J.A. and Liberzon I. Differential subjective and psychophysiological responses to socially and nonsocially generated emotonal stimuli. Emotion, 6(1): 150-155, 2006.
• Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. Automatic processes in addiction: a commentary. In Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction (R. W. Wiers & A. W. Stacy, Eds.). Sage Press, pp. 477-481 2006.
• Matell, M.S., Berridge, K.C., Aldridge, J .W. Dopamine D1 activation shortens the duration of phases in stereotyped grooming sequences. Behavioural Processes, 71 241–249 2006.
• Pecina, S., & Berridge, K.C. Hedonic hot spot in nucleus accumbens shell: where do mu opioids cause increased hedonic impact of sweetness? Journal of Neuroscience, 25(50): 11777-11786, 2005.
• Tindel, A.J., Berridge, K.C., Zhang, J.,Pecina, S., & Aldridge, W. Ventral pallidal neurons code incentive motivation: amplification by mesolimbic sensitization and amphetamine. European Journal of Neuroscience, 22, 2617-2634, 2005.
• Smith, K.S., & Berridge, K.C. The ventral pallidum and hedonic reward: neurochemical maps of sucrose “liking” and food intake. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(38), 8637-8649, 2005.
• Richardson, D.K., Reynolds, S. M., Cooper, S.J. & Berridge, K.C. Endogenous opioids are necessary for benzodiazepine palatability enhancement: naltrexone blocks diazepam-induced increase of sucrose ‘liking’. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 81 (3), 657-663, 2005.
• Berridge, K.C. Espresso reward learning, hold the dopamine: Theoretical commentary on Robinson, Sandstrom, Denenberg, and Palmiter (invited commentary). Behavioral Neuroscience, 119(1) 336-341, 2005. (Link to target article:  )
• Winkielman, P., Berridge, K. C., & Wilbarger, J. L. Unconscious affective reactions to masked happy versus angry faces influence consumption behavior and judgments of value. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31(1), 121-135, 2005.
• Winkielman, P., Berridge, K. C., & Wilbarger, J. L. Emotion, behavior, and conscious experience: Once more without feeling. In Emotion and Consciousness. Barrett, L.F., Niedenthal, P.M., & Winkielman, P. (Eds). Guilford Press, N.Y., pp 335-362 (scanned pdf), 2005.
• Berridge, K.C., Aldridge, J.W., Houchard, K.R., & Zhuang, X. Sequential super-stereotypy of an instinctive fixed action pattern in hyper-dopaminergic mutant mice: a model of obsessive compulsive disorder and Tourette’s. BMC Biology, 2005, 3:2, 2005.
• Berridge, K.C. Motivation concepts in behavioral neuroscience. Physiology & Behavior 81 (2), 179 – 209, 2004.
• Tindell, A.J., Berridge, K.C., & Aldridge, J.W. Ventral pallidal representation of Pavlovian cues and reward: Population and rate codes. Journal of Neuroscience, 24 (5), 1058-1069, 2004.
• Winkielman, P. & Berridge, K.C. Unconscious emotion. Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, 13(3), 120-123, 2004.
• Berridge, K.C. Pleasure, unconscious affect and irrational desire. In Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium. A.S.R. Manstead, N.H. Frijda, & A.H. Fischer (Eds.). , pp 43-62 (PDF reprint posted by permission of Cambridge University Press) 2004.
• Berridge, K. C. (2004). Simple pleasures. (invited column) Psychological Science Agenda, 18 (11). American Psychological Association. APA Online, 2004.
• Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. Incentive-sensitization and drug ‘wanting’ (reply). Psychopharmacology 171, 352-353, 2004.
• Aldridge, J.W., Berridge, K.C., & Rosen, A.R. Basal ganglia neural mechanisms of natural movement sequences. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. 82(8-9) 732-739, 2004.
• Peciña S., Cagniard, B., Berridge, K.C., Aldridge, J.W. & Zhuang, X. Hyperdopaminergic mutant mice have higher ‘wanting’ but not ‘liking’ for sweet rewards. Journal of Neuroscience 23 (28), 9395-9402, 2003.
• Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. Parsing reward.  Trends in Neurosciences, 26(9), 507-513, 2003.
• Berridge, K.C. Pleasures of the brain. Brain & Cognition, 52 (10), 106-128, 2003.
• Berridge, K.C. & Winkielman, P. What is an unconscious emotion? Cognition & Emotion, 17, 181-211, 2003
• Winkielman, P. & Berridge, K.C. Irrational Wanting and Subrational Liking: How Rudimentary Motivational and Affective Processes Shape Preferences and Choices. Political Psychology 24(4), 657-680, 2003.
• Reynolds, S. M. &  Berridge,  Glutamate motivational ensembles in nucleus accumbens: Rostrocaudal shell gradients of fear and feeding. European Journal of Neuroscience, 17 (10), 2187-2200, 2003 .
• Berridge, K.C. Irrational pursuits: Hyper-incentives from a visceral brain. In The Psychology of Economic Decisions (Vol. 1), I. Brocas & J. Carrillo (Eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 17-40, 2003.
• Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. Addiction. Annual Review of Psychology, v. 54, pp. 25-53, 2003.
• Berridge, K.C. Comparing the emotional brain of humans and other animals. In Handbook of Affective Sciences, R.J. Davidson, H.H. Goldsmith, & K. Scherer (Eds.), Chapt. 3: pp. 25-51, Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Aldridge, J.W. & Berridge,K.C. Basal ganglia neural coding of natural action sequences. In Graybiel, A.M., Kitai, S.T. & DeLong, M. (Eds.), The Basal Ganglia VI. Plenum, New York, pp. 279-287, 2003.
• Reynolds, S. M. &  Berridge,  K.C. Positive and negative motivation in nucleus accumbens shell: Bivalent rostrocaudal gradients for GABA-elictied eating, taset ‘liking’/’disliking’ reactions, place preference/avoidance, and fear. Journal of Neuroscience, 22 (16), 7308-7320, 2002.
• Kelley A.E. & Berridge K.C. Neuroscience of natural rewards: relevance to addictive drugs (minireview) Journal of Neuroscience 22: 3306-11, 2002. 
• Aldridge, J.W. & Berridge, K.C. Coding of behavioral sequences in the basal ganglia. In Nicolson, L.F.B. & Faull, R.L. (Eds.), The Basal Ganglia VII. pp. 53-66, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2002.
• Meyer-Luehmann, M., Thompson, J.F., Berridge, K.C., and Aldridge, J.W. Substantia nigra pars reticulata neurons code initiation of a serial pattern: Implications for natural action sequences and sequential disorders. European Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 1599-1608, 2002.
• Wyvell, C.L. & Berridge, K.C. Incentive-sensitization by previous amphetamine exposure:  Increased cue-triggered ‘wanting’ for sucrose reward. Journal of Neuroscience, 21 (19), 2001.
• Reynolds, S. & Berridge, K.C. Fear and feeding in the nucleus accumbens shell: Rostrocaudal segregation of GABA elicitation of defensive behavior and eating behavior. Journal of Neuroscience, 21 (9), 3261-3270, 2001.
• Berridge, K.C. Reward learning: Reinforcement, incentives and expectations. In Psychology of Learning and Motivation, D. L. Medin (Ed.), Academic Press, V. 40, 223-278, 2001.
• Steiner, J., Glaser, D. Hawilo, M.H., & Berridge, K.C. Comparative expression of hedonic impact: Affective reactions to taste by human infants and other primates. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews25, 53-74, 2001.
• Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. Incentive-sensitization and addiction. Addiction (Millenium issue on theories of addiction), 96 (1), 103-114, 2001.
• Berridge, K.C. Taste reactivity: Measuring hedonic impact in infants and animals: microstructure of affective taste reactivity patterns. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 24, 173-198, 2000.
• Wyvell, C.L. & Berridge, K.C Intra-accumbens amphetamine increases the conditioned incentive salience of sucrose reward: Enhancement of reward ‘wanting’ without enhanced ‘liking’ or response reinforcement. Journal of Neuroscience, 20, 8122-8130, 2000.
• Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. The psychology and neurobiology of addiction: an incentive-sensitization view. Addiction, 95, Suppl. 2, S91-S117, 2000.
• Söderpalm, A. H. V., & K. C Berridge. The hedonic impact and intake of food are increased by midazolam microinjection in the parabrachial nucleus. Brain Research, 887, 288-297, 2000.
• Söderpalm, A. H. V., & K. C Berridge. Food intake after diazepam, morphine, or muscimol: microinjections in the nucleus accumbens shell. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior, 66, 429-434, 2000.
• Peciña, S. & Berridge, K.C. Opioid Site in Nucleus Accumbens Shell Mediates Food Intake and Hedonic ‘Liking’: Map Based on Microinjection Fos Plumes. Brain Research, 863, 71-86, 2000.
• Feurté, S., Nicolaidis, S., & Berridge, K.C. Conditioned taste aversion in rats for a threonine-deficient diet: demonstration by the taste reactivity test. Physiology & Behavior, 68, 423-429, 2000.
• Berridge, K.C. & Aldridge, J.W. Super-stereotypy I: Enhancement of a complex movement sequence by systemic dopamine D1 agonists. Synapse, 37, 194-204, 2000.
• Berridge, K.C. & Aldridge, J.W. Super-stereotypy II: Enhancement of a complex movement sequence by intraventricular dopamine D1 agonists. Synapse, 37, 205-215, 2000.
• Bursten, S., Berridge, K.C. & Ownings, D.H. Do California ground squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi) use ritualized syntactic cephalocaudal grooming as an agonistic signal? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 114, 281-290, 2000.
• Berridge, K.C. Pleasure, pain, desire, and dread: hidden core processes of emotion. In Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology.Kahneman, D., Diener, E., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.), New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp 527-559 (1999).
• Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. What is the role of dopamine in reward: Hedonics, learning, or incentive salience? Brain Research Reviews, 28 (3), 308-367, 1998.
• Aldridge, J.W. & Berridge, K.C. Coding of serial order by neostriatal neurons: a ‘natural action’ approach to movement sequence. Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 2777-2787, 1998.
• H.C. Cromwell, K.C. Berridge, J. Drago, and M.S. Levine. Action sequencing is impaired in D1A-deficient mutant mice. European Journal of Neuroscience, 10, 2426-2432, 1998.
• Nesse, R. M. & Berridge, K.C. Psychoactive drug use in evolutionary perspective. Science, 278, 63-66, 1997.
• Reprinted 2004 in: Kenrick, D.T. & Luce, C.L. (Eds.), The Functional Mind: Readings in Evolutionary Psychology. (Reprinted from Science, 278, 63-66, 1997). Pearson: Allyn and Bacon, N.Y. pp 36-41 (2004).
• Peciña, S., Berridge, K.C., Parker, L.A. Pimozide does not shift palatability: Separation of anhedonia from sensorimotor effects by the taste reactivity paradigm. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 58, 801-811, 1997.
• Cromwell, H.C. & Berridge, K.C. Haloperidol decreases hyperkinetic paw treading induced by globus pallidus lesions in the rat. Experimental Neurology, 145, 288-294, 1997.
• Berridge, K.C. Food reward: Brain substrates of wanting and liking.Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 20, 1-25, 1996.
• Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. Control versus causation of addiction (commentary) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 576, 1996.
• Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. The pursuit of value: tolerance or sensitization (commentary) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 594, 1996.
• Colonnese, M.T., Stallman, E.L. & Berridge, K.C. Ontogeny of Action Syntax in Altricial and Precocial Rodents: Grooming Sequences of Rat and Guinea Pig Pups. Behaviour, 113, 1165-1195, 1996.
• Peciña, S. & Berridge, K.C. Brainstem mediates diazepam enhancement of palatability and feeding: microinjections into fourth ventricle versus lateral ventricle. Brain Research, 727, 22-30, 1996.
• Cromwell, H.C. & Berridge, K.C. Implementation of serial action sequences by a neostriatal site: A lesion mapping study of grooming syntax. Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 3444-3458, 1996.
• Peciña, S. & Berridge, K.C. Central enhancement of taste pleasure by intraventricular morphine. Neurobiology 3, 269-180, 1995.
• Berridge, K.C & Robinson, T.E. The mind of an addicted brain: Neural sensitization of “wanting” versus “liking”. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 4, 71-76, 1995.
• Berridge, K.C. & Peciña, S. Benzodiazepine systems, appetite, and palatability. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 19, 121-131, 1995.
• Reprinted 2002 in: K.C & Robinson, T.E. The mind of an addicted brain: Neural sensitization of “wanting” versus “liking”. In Cacioppo, John T. and Berntson, Gary G. (Eds). Foundations in social neuroscience ; pp. 493-572. Cambridge, MA, US: MIT Press, 2002
• Berridge, K.C. The development of action patterns. In The Development of Behavioural Causation, J. Hogan & J. Bolhuis (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 147-180 (1994).
• Cromwell, H.C. & Berridge, K.C. Mapping of globus pallidus and ventral pallidum lesions that produce hyperkinetic treading. Brain Research,668, 16-29, 1994.
• Cromwell, H.C. & Berridge, K.C. Where does damage lead to enhanced food aversion: Ventral pallidum/substantia innomominata or lateral hypothalamus? Brain Research, 624, 1-10, 1993. (scanned pdf)
• Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. The neural basis of drug craving. An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction. Brain Research Reviews, 18, 247-291, 1993. (scanned pdf)
• Laeng, B., Berridge, K.C., Butter, C.M. Pleasantness of a sweet taste during hunger and satiety: Effects of human gender and “sweet tooth”. Appetite, 21, 247-254, 1993.
• Doyle, T.G., Berridge, K.C. & Gosnell, B.A. Morphine enhances hedonic palatability in rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 46, 745-749, 1993. (scanned pdf)
• Galaverna, O.G., Seeley, R.J., Berridge, K.C., Grill, H.J., Schulkin, J., & Epstein, A.N. Lesions of the central nucleus of the amygdala: Effects on taste reactivity, taste aversion learning, and sodium appetite. Behavioral Brain Research, 59, 11-18, 1993.
• Aldridge, J.W., Berridge, K.C., Herman, M. & Zimmer, L. Neuronal coding of behavioral sequence: syntax of grooming in the neostriatum.Psychological Science, 4, 391-395, 1993.
• Berridge, K.C. & Whishaw, I.Q. Cortex, Striatum, and Cerebellum: Control of syntactic grooming sequences. Experimental Brain Research, 90,275-290, 1992 (scanned pdf).
• Berridge, K.C. & Zajonc, R.B. Hypothalamic cooling elicits eating: Differential effects on motivation and emotion. Psychological Science, 2, 184-189, 1991. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. Modulation of taste affect by hunger, caloric satiety, and sensory-specific satiety. Appetite, 16, 103-120, 1991. (scanned pdf).
• Berridge, K.C. & Valenstein, E.S. What psychological processes mediate feeding evoked by electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus? Behavioral Neuroscience, 105, 3-14, 1991. (scanned pdf)
• Treit, D. & Berridge, K.C.. A comparison of benzodiazepine, serotonin, and dopamine agents in the taste-reactivity paradigm. Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior, 37, 451-456, 1990. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. Comparative fine structure of action: rules of form and sequence in the grooming patterns of six rodent species. Behaviour, 113, 21-56, 1990. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. & Cromwell, H.C. Motivational-Sensorimotor Interaction controls aphagia and exaggerated treading after striatopallidal lesions. Behavioral Neuroscience, 104, 778-795, 1990. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C., Venier, I.L., & Robinson, T.E. Taste Reactivity Analysis of 6-OHDA aphagia without impairment of taste reactivity: Implications for theories of dopamine function. Behavioral Neuroscience, 103, 36-45, 1989. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. & Schulkin, J. Palatability shift of a salt-associated incentive during sodium depletion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41(B), 121-138, 1989. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. Substantia nigra 6-OHDA lesions mimic striatopallidal disruption of syntactic grooming chains: a neural systems analysis of sequence control. Psychobiology, 17, 377-385, 1989. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. Progressive degradation of serial grooming chains by descending decerebration. Behavioural Brain Research, 33, 241-253, 1989. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. . Brainstem systems mediate the enhancement of palatability by chlordiazepoxide. Brain Research, 447, 262-268, 1988. (scanned pdf).
• Berridge, K.C., Fentress, J.C, & Treit, D. A triggered hyperkinesia induced in rats by lesions of the corpus striatum. Experimental Neurology, 99, 259-268, 1988. (scanned pdf)
• Treit, D. Berridge, K.C. & Schultz, C.E. The direct enhancement of positive palatability by chlordiazepoxide is antagonized by Ro15-1788 and CGS 8216. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 26, 709-714, 1987. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C., Fentress, J.C., & Parr, H. Natural syntax rules control action sequence of rats. Behavioral Brain Research, 23, 59-68, 1987. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. & Fentress, J.C. Deafferentation does not disrupt rules of action syntax. Behavioral Brain Research, 23, 69-76, 1987. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. & Fentress, J.C. Disruption of natural grooming chains after striatopallidal lesions. Psychobiology, 15,336-342, 1987. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. & Treit, D. Chordiazepoxide directly enhances positive ingestive reactions in rats. Pharmacology, Biochemcistry & Behavior, 24(2), 217-221, 1986. (scanned pdf)
• Delamater, A.R., LoLordo, V.M., & Berridge, K.C. Control of fluid palatability by exteroceptive Pavlovian signals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behvaior Processes, 12:143-152, 1986. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. & Fentress, J.C. Contextual control of trigeminal sensorimotor function. The Journal of Neuroscience, 6, 325-330, 1986. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. & Fentress, J.C. Deterministic vs probabilistic models of behaviour: taste-elicited actions in rats as a case study. Animal Behaviour, 34, 871-880, 1986. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. & Fentress, J.C. Trigeminal-taste interaction in palatability processing. Science, 228, 747-749, 1985. (scanned pdf)
• Grill, H.J. & Berridge, K.C. Taste reactivity as a measure of the neural control of palatability. In Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology, Vol. 11 (J.M. Sprague & A.N. Epstein, Eds.), Academic Press, 1985. (scanned pdf)
• Zellner, D.A., Berridge, K.C. J. & Grill, H.J., & Ternes, J.W. Rats learn to like the taste of morphine. Behavioral Neuroscience, 99, 290=300, 1985. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C., Flynn, F. W., Schulkin, J. & Grill, H.J. Sodium depletion enhances salt palatability in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 98, 652-660, 1984. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. & Grill, H.J. Isohedonic tastes support a two-dimensional hypothesis of palatability. Appetite, 5, 221-231, 1984. (scanned pdf)
• Grill, H.J., Berridge, K.C. & Ganster, D.J. Oral glucose is the prime elicitor of preabsorptive insulin secretion. American Journal of Physiology, 246, R88-R95, 1984. (scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C. & Grill, H.J. Alternating ingestive and aversive consummatory responses suggests a two-dimensional analysis of palatability in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 97, 563-573, 1983.(scanned pdf)
• Berridge, K.C., Grill, H.J., & Norgren, R. Relation of consummatory responses and preabsorptive insulin release to palatability and learned taste aversions. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 95, 363-381, 1981. (scanned pdf)