Table 1.

Pathways with overlapping roles in motivational responses to cues and the effects of sleep deprivation on reward-related behavior.

Pathways	Role in motivation	Effect of sleep deprivation	References
VTA – NAcc – VP	Attribution of incentive salience to cues (STs > GTs)	Hyperactivity and enhanced reward seeking	Flagel et al., 2017; Satterfield et al., 2019
PFC – PVT – NAcc	Predictive value of reward-paired cues (GTs > STs)	Weakened inhibitory control over reward seeking	Haight et al., 2017; Liu et al., 2016
AMG – NAcc	Amplification of conditioned responding without changing the target of approach	Increase in the subjective valuation of food cues	DeFeliceantonio and Berridge 2012; Rihm et al., 2018