The document discusses brain reward centers and provides session objectives. It aims to describe the evolutionary basis of reward and emotion, and use the Limits Cycle process to reduce stress and return to homeostatic reward and positive emotion.
1. Brain Reward Centers
Laurel Mellin, PhD
Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
Igor Mitrovic, MD
Professor of Physiology, UCSF
2. SESSION 7 OBJECTIVES
• Describe the evolutionary basis of reward and emotion.
• Use the Limits Cycle to process stress back to
homeostatic reward and positive emotion.