Pleasure rather than salience activates human nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex.

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Published in J Neurophysiol on June 27, 2007

Authors

Dean Sabatinelli1, Margaret M Bradley, Peter J Lang, Vincent D Costa, Francesco Versace

Author Affiliations

1: National Institute of Mental Health Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. sabat@ufl.edu

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