Introduction: The Many Faces of Pleasure

Morten L. Kringelbach & Kent C. Berridge
I. Animal Pleasures
1:Hedonic Hotspots: Generating Sensory Pleasure in the Brain

Kyle S. Smith, Stephen V. Mahler, Susana Pecina, Kent C. Berridge (Michigan, USA)
2:Conditioned Reinforcement and the Specialized Role of Corticolimbic Circuits in the Pursuit of Happiness and Other More Specific Rewards

Kathryn A. Burke, Theresa Franz, Danielle Miller, & Geoffrey Schoenbaum (University of Maryland, USA)
3:Neural Coding of Pleasure: "Rose-tinted Glasses" of the Ventral Pallidum

J. Wayne Aldridge & Kent C. Berridge (Michigan, USA)
4:Hedonics: The Cognitive-Motivational Interface

Anthony Dickinson & Bernard Balleine (Cambridge, UK and UCLA, USA)
5:Neuroethology of Pleasure

Karli K. Watson, Stephen V. Sheperd & Michael L. Platt (Duke University, USA)
II. Human Pleasures
6:On the Nature and Function of Pleasure

Nico Frijda (Amsterdam, Holland)
7:The Dialectics of Pleasure

Michel Cabanac (Laval, Canada)
8:Neuroimaging of Olfaction

Jay Gottfried (Northwestern, USA)
9:The Pleasure of Taste, Flavor and Food

Maria Veldhuizen, Kristin Rudenga & Dana Small (Yale, USA)
10:Sexual Pleasure

Barry R. Komisaruk, Beverly Whipple & Carlos Beyer (Rutgers, USA)
11:The Sweetest Taboo: Functional Neurobiology of Human Sexuality in relation to Pleasure

Janniko R. Georgiadis & Rudie Kortekaas (University of Groningen, Holland)
12:The Hedonic Brain: A Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Pleasure

Morten L. Kringelbach (Oxford, UK)
13:The Neurobiology of Desire: Dopamine and the Regulation of Mood and Motivational States in Humans

Marco Leyton (McGill, Canada)
14:To Be Happy and To Know It: The Meta-awareness of Pleasure

Jonathan Schooler & Iris Mauss (University of California, Santa Barbara)
15:The Pleasure of Music

Peter Vuust & Morten Kringelbach (Aarhus University, Denmark and Oxford, UK)
16:Neuroaesthetics

Martin Skov (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
III. Clinical Applications
17:Placebo Analgesia and the Brain

Pregrag Petrovic (Karolinska, Sweden)
18:Deep Brain Stimulation and Pleasure

Alex Green, Erlick Pereira & Tipu Aziz (Oxford, UK)
19:Pleasure and Pain: Masters of Mankind

Siri Leknes & Irene Tracey (Oxford, UK)