Should we or shouldn’t we?

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Reward‐seeking is critical for survival. Learning about the relationship between actions and outcomes helps us to make decisions and select behaviours that result in a specific outcome. This special issue entitled “The Neurochemistry of Reward‐Seeking” addresses this crucial facet of behaviour and brings together a number of key thought‐leaders to provide a timely update on the circuitry, chemistry and mechanisms underlying different aspects of reward‐seeking. The reviews in this issue canvass unanswered questions in the field and provide a degree of forethought about how we may advance our understanding of reward‐seeking by embracing novel technology alongside existing scholarship. This issue also highlights the neurochemical complexity of reward‐seeking, and the reader will uncover both distinct and shared circuits and transmitters driving various forms of reward‐seeking. Accordingly, we hope that this special issue will provide a valuable resource for the field and trigger future research on this topic.










Reward‐seeking is critical for survival. Learning about the relationship between actions and outcomes helps us to make decisions and select behaviours that result in a specific outcome. This special issue entitled “The Neurochemistry of Reward‐Seeking” addresses this crucial facet of behaviour and brings together a number of key thought‐leaders to provide a timely update on the circuitry, chemistry and mechanisms underlying different aspects of reward‐seeking. The reviews in this issue canvass unanswered questions in the field and provide a degree of forethought about how we may advance our understanding of reward‐seeking by embracing novel technology alongside existing scholarship. This issue also highlights the neurochemical complexity of reward‐seeking, and the reader will uncover both distinct and shared circuits and transmitters driving various forms of reward‐seeking. Accordingly, we hope that this special issue will provide a valuable resource for the field and trigger future research on this topic.