Emotion, motivation, decision-making, the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and the amygdala

• Published in: Brain Structure and Function Vol. 228; no. 5; pp. 1201 - 1257
• Main Author: Rolls, Edmund T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Amygdala; Amygdala - physiology; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Brain stem; Cell Biology; Cholinergic transmission; Cortex (cingulate); Decision making; Emotions - physiology; Freezing; Gyrus Cinguli - physiology; Humans; Motivation; Neural networks; Neurology; Neurosciences; Prefrontal cortex; Prefrontal Cortex - physiology; Reinforcement; Review; Reward; Sweet taste; Human orbitofrontal cortex; Motivation; Cingulate cortex; Amygdala; Consciousness; Welfare; Memory; Depression; Emotion; Reward; Mind-brain problem; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

The orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala are involved in emotion and in motivation, but the relationship between these functions performed by these brain structures is not clear. To address this, a unified theory of emotion and motivation is described in which motivational states are states in which in...