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Mahler reprintBerridge, K.C. & Kringelbach, M.L. Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals. Psychopharmacology,199, 457-480, 2008.

Mahler reprint Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. The incentive sensitization theory of addiction: some current issues. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0093 advance online, 2008.

Mahler reprint Smith, K.S., Tindell, A.J, Aldridge, J.W., & Berridge, K.C. Ventral pallidum roles in reward and motivation. Behavioural Brain Research, doi:10.10.16/j.bbr.2008.09.038 , 2008.

Mahler reprintBerridge, K.C. & Aldridge, J.W. Decision utility, the brain, and pursuit of hedonic goals. Social Cognition, 26, 621-646, 2008.

Berridge dopamine debateBerridge, K.C. The debate over dopamine's role in reward: the case for incentive salience. Psychopharmacology191, 391-431, 2007.
(Link to commentary: link to robbins everitt commentary 2007)

Berridge dopamine debate 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 dopamine debate Peciña, S., Smith, K.S., & Berridge, K.C. Hedonic hotspots in the brain. The Neuroscientist, 12(6) 500-511, 2006.

Berridge, K.C. Motivation concepts in behavioral neuroscience. Physiology & Behavior 81 (2), 179 - 209, 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.

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.

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

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. 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.

Kelley A.E. & Berridge K.C. Neuroscience of natural rewards: relevance to addictive drugs (minireview) Journal of Neuroscience 22: 3306-11, 2002. 

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.

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 Reviews, 24, 173-198, 2000.

Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. The psychology and neurobiology of addiction: an incentive-sensitization view. Addiction, 95, Suppl. 2, S91-S117, 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.

Nesse, R. M. & Berridge, K.C. Psychoactive drug use in evolutionary perspective. Science, 278, 63-66, 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. The mind of an addicted brain: Neural sensitization of "wanting" versus "liking". Current Directions in Psychological Science, 4, 71-76, 1995.

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)