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PubMed1978

Hedonesthesia: the nervous process determining motivated ingestive behavior.

The hedonistic theory of motivated ingestive behavior is discussed against drive-reduction theories, which claim that ingestive motivated behavior is mainly determined by the urge to meet the basic needs of the organism, often ignoring the important role of sensations. Evidence is supplied that mere sensations derived by exteroceptors can play an essential part in motivated behavior. A view is put forward that the reinforcing properties of exteroceptive stimulation in motivated ingestive 'behavior should be related to their ability to generate positive emotional states experienced as pleasure. It was pointed out, however, that the same external gustatory stimulation may possess a different hedonic value, depending on the current nutritional state of the organism. Therefore, the existence of a special nervous process which makes these stimuli emotionally positive, neutral or negative, i.e., pleasant, indifferent or aversive, depending on the given state of need is postulated. We call this nervous process hedonesthesia, and claim that it plays a decisive part in motivated ingestive behavior. The possible mechanism of hedonesthesia is explained on the block model.

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PubMed1995

[Evaluation of the subjective component of emotions in normal subjects: relation between anhedonia and the capacity to perceive unpleasant feelings in a population of 221 normal subjects].

This work presents a study of 221 healthy subjects among whom we have assessed the capacity to feel pleasure or displeasure through two rating scales, the FCPCS-PP and the HDCS-PD. We have observed a significant correlation between the scores, which shows that the more pleasure the subject feels, the more displeasure he feels. These results seem to confirm the existence of an overall dimension of emotional experience.

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PubMed1994

[Biology of pleasure].

Pleasure is not an "extra", or bonus bringing a little more soul to certain of our acts; it is a fundamental part of animal life. It is just as difficult to define as spirit, but nonetheless man is very conscious of it, and it is found to be associated with certain animal behaviours. The study of the biology of pleasure entails 1) showing how it intervenes in relation with "need" in the regulation of major homeostatic functions, 2) studying its participation in the opponent processes which determine given behaviours, 3) categorising the hormones and neurotransmitters it brings into play, 4) determining its presence in drug addiction and pathological consommatory behaviour.

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