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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 19.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2008 Mar 3;199(3):457–480. doi: 10.1007/s00213-008-1099-6

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Hedonic hotspots and hedonic circuits. Hedonic hotspots are shown in nucleus accumbens, ventral pallidum, and brainstem parabrachial nucleus where opioid or other signals cause amplification of core ‘liking’ reactions to sweetness. Reprinted with permission from Smith et al. (2008), based on Kringelbach (2005), Peciña et al. (2006), and Smith and Berridge (2007)