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Berridge, K.C. Pleasures of the brain. Brain & Cognition, 52 (10), 106-128, 2003.

Reynolds, S. M. &  Berridge, K.C. 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. & Winkielman, P. What is an unconscious emotion? Cognition & Emotion, 17, 181-211, 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.

Reynolds, S. M., & Berridge, K. C. Positive and negative motivation in nucleus accumbens shell: Bivalent rostrocaudal gradients for GABA-elicited eating, taste "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. 

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 Reviews 25, 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. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review, 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.

Bursten, S., Berridge, K.C. & Owings, 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.

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. 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. The role of dopamine in reward: Hedonics, learning, or incentive salience? Brain Research Reviews, 28 (3), 308-367, 1998.

Nesse, R. M. & Berridge, K.C. Psychoactive drug use in evolutionary perspective. Science, 278, 63-66, 1997.

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.

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.

Peciña, S. & Berridge, K.C. Brainstem contains primary substrates for benzodiazepine-induced palatability enhancement: Microinjections into forebrain versus hindbrain ventricles. Brain Research, 727, 22-30, 1996.

Peciña, S. & Berridge, K.C. Central enhancement of taste pleasure by intraventricular morphine. Neurobiology, 3, 269-280, 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.

Cromwell, H.C. & Berridge, K.C. Where does damage lead to enhanced food aversion: Ventral pallidum/substantia innominata or lateral hypothalamus? Brain Research, 624, 1-10, 1993.

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.

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.

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.

Berridge, K.C. & Zajonc, R.B. Hypothalamic cooling elicits eating: Differential effects on motivation and emotion. Psychological Science, 2, 184-189, 1991.

Berridge, K.C. Modulation of taste affect by hunger, caloric satiety, and sensory-specific satiety. Appetite, 16, 103-120, 1991.

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.

Treit, D. & Berridge, K.C. A comparison of benzodiazepine, dopamine, and serotonin agents in the Taste-Reactivity Paradigm. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior, 37, 451-456, 1990.

Berridge, K.C. & Cromwell, H.C. Sensorimotor/Motivational Interaction controls aphagia and exaggerated treading after striatopallidal lesions. Behavioral Neuroscience, 104, 778-795, 1990.

Berridge, K.C., Venier, I.L., & Robinson, T.E. 6-OHDA aphagia without impairment of taste reactivity: Implications for theories of dopamine function. Behavioral Neuroscience, 103, 36-45, 1989.

Berridge, K.C. & Schulkin, J. Palatability shift of a salt-associated incentive during sodium depletion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41B, 121-138, 1989.

Berridge, K.C. Brainstem mediates the enhancement of palatability by chlordiazepoxide. Brain Research, 447, 262-268, 1988.

Treit, D., Berridge, K.C., and Schultz, C.E. The direct enhancement of positive palatability by chlordiazepoxide is antagonized by RO 15-1788 and CGS 8216. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 26, 709-714, 1987.

Delamater, A.R., LoLordo, V.M. and Berridge, K.C. Control of fluid palatability by exteroceptive Pavlovian signals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 12, 143-152, 1986.

Berridge, K.C. and Fentress, J.C. Deterministic versus probabilistic models of behaviour: Taste-elicited actions in rats as a case study. Animal Behavior, 34: 871-880, 1986.

Berridge, K.C. and Treit, D. Chlordiazepoxide directly enhances positive ingestive reactions in rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 24: 217-221, 1986.

Grill, H.J. and Berridge, K.C. Taste reactivity as a measure of the neural control of palatability. In J.M. Sprague and A.N. Epstein (Eds.), Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology Vol. II, Academic Press, New York, pp. 1-61, 1985.

Berridge, K.C. and Fentress, J.C. Trigeminal/taste interaction in palatability processing. Science, 228: 747-750, 1985.

Zellner, D.A., Berridge, K.C., Grill, H.J. and Ternes, J.W. Rats learn to like the taste of morphine. Behavioral Neuroscience, 99, 290-300, 1985.

Berridge, K.C. and Grill, H.J. Isohedonic tastes support a two-dimensional hypothesis of palatability. Appetite, 5: 221-231, 1984.

Berridge, K.C., Flynn, F.W., Schulkin, J. and Grill, H.J. Sodium depletion enhances salt palatability in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 98: 652-660, 1984.

Grill, H.J., Berridge, K.C. and Ganster, D.J. Oral glucose is the prime elicitor of preabsorptive insulin secretion. American Journal of Physiology, 286: R88-95, 1984.

Berridge, K.C. and Grill, H.J. Alternating ingestive and aversive consummatory responses suggests a two-dimensional analysis of palatability in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 97: 563-573, 1983.

Berridge, K., Grill, H.J. and Norgren, R. The relation of consummatory responses and preabsorptive insulin release to palatability and learned taste aversions. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 95: 363-382, 1981.