Presented By: Department of Psychology
Kent Berridge's Distinguished University Professorship Lecture: Finding delight, desire and dread in the brain.
Kent Berridge, James Olds Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
ABSTRACT
This talk will describe a scientific journey studying brain mechanisms of pleasure ‘liking and ‘wanting’, and other emotions. Though crucial for normal life, ‘liking’ and ‘wanting’ processes can go awry in addiction and other disorders. Brain ‘wanting’ systems can grow independently powerful in addiction, become suppressed in mood disorders, and even have a darker side in some forms of paranoia. This journey follows in the footsteps of James Olds and other UM pioneers in brain mechanisms of reward and motivation.
BIO
Kent Berridge is the James Olds Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. His research aims for answers to questions such as: What causes addiction? How is pleasure generated by the brain? How is disgust generated? How does wanting something differ from liking it? What does fear share with desire?
Berridge received a B.S. degree in 1979 from the University of California at Davis, his M.A. in 1980 and Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University for two years in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He joined the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor of Psychology in 1985. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Senior Fellow, Fellow of AAAS, APA, and APS, and co-winner of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution award of the American Psychological Association.
This talk will describe a scientific journey studying brain mechanisms of pleasure ‘liking and ‘wanting’, and other emotions. Though crucial for normal life, ‘liking’ and ‘wanting’ processes can go awry in addiction and other disorders. Brain ‘wanting’ systems can grow independently powerful in addiction, become suppressed in mood disorders, and even have a darker side in some forms of paranoia. This journey follows in the footsteps of James Olds and other UM pioneers in brain mechanisms of reward and motivation.
BIO
Kent Berridge is the James Olds Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. His research aims for answers to questions such as: What causes addiction? How is pleasure generated by the brain? How is disgust generated? How does wanting something differ from liking it? What does fear share with desire?
Berridge received a B.S. degree in 1979 from the University of California at Davis, his M.A. in 1980 and Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University for two years in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He joined the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor of Psychology in 1985. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Senior Fellow, Fellow of AAAS, APA, and APS, and co-winner of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution award of the American Psychological Association.
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