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The Brain and Emotion
Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852463-3
In The Brain and Emotion, Edmund Rolls provides
a modern neuroscience-based approach to understanding the brain
mechanisms involved in emotion, and motivated behaviours such as
hunger, thirst, sexual behaviour and addiction. Rolls links his
analysis of the neural structures and mechanisms of emotion and
motivation to a wider consideration of what emotions are, how they
evolved, and why emotional and motivational feelings - and ultimately
consciousness itself - might arise in the brain.
"...its real strength becomes apparent in the detailed
analyses of the roles of the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex in
processing rewards and punishments, and in the description of the basal
ganglia as an output system for emotional and motivational
behaviour...the reader who is seeking a deep understanding of the
function of the frontal cortex and basal ganglia need look no further."
-Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 7
"...Professor Edmund Rolls is an eminent neuroscientist who has
performed meticulous research investigating the central mechanisms of
feeding in primates.." Behaviour Research and Therapy
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