Publication Name	World Journal of Psychiatry
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Category	Neurosciences
Manuscript Type	Frontier
Article Title	Framework for internal sensation of pleasure using constraints from disparate findings in nucleus accumbens
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Kunjumon Ittira Vadakkan
ORCID	Author(s) ORCID Number Kunjumon Ittira Vadakkan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2721-6931
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Corresponding Author	Kunjumon Ittira Vadakkan, MBBS, MD, MSc, PhD, Senior Scientist, Division of Neuroscience, Neurosearch Center, 167 Brunswick Street, Toronto M5S2M3, Ontario, Canada. kunjumon.vadakkan@utoronto.ca
Key Words	Pleasure; Internal sensation; Mind; Memory; Long-term potentiation; Long-term depression; Nucleus accumbens; Drug addiction
Core Tip	Pleasure has been studied by examining animal behaviour and its correlations with molecular and electrophysiological changes. Drugs of abuse generate pleasure along with several seemingly unrelated changes in nucleus accumbens (NAc). When pleasure was examined as a first-person inner sensation, it was possible to arrive at a framework of a causal mechanism for its generation that can also provide inter-connected mechanistic explanations for long-term depression (LTD) in NAc in naïve animals, impaired ability to induce LTD in addicted state, attenuation of postsynaptic potentials by both cocaine and dopamine, and reduced firing of medium spiny neurons in NAc by dopamine. Findings made by this work are testable.
Publish Date	2021-10-15 09:56
Citation	Vadakkan KI. Framework for internal sensation of pleasure using constraints from disparate findings in nucleus accumbens. World J Psychiatr 2021; 11(10): 681-695
URL	https://www.wjgnet.com/2220-3206/full/v11/i10/681.htm
DOI	https://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v11.i10.681

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