Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2017/Neurotransmitters and motivation

Helpful reference
Hi Stephanie, I am really interested to see how your book chapter develops, as I am personally interested in how neurotransmitters can influence our motivation and affect our daily functioning. I found an interesting article which looks at the impact that serotonin and dopamine have on human motivation. I thought it might be a useful starting reference. Hebart, M. N., & Gläscher, J. (2015;2014;). Serotonin and dopamine differentially affect appetitive and aversive general pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer. Psychopharmacology, 232(2), 437-451. doi:10.1007/s00213-014-3682-3 Gemma --U3119414 (discuss • contribs) 05:28, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Quickstart tip
Hi Stephanie :) A quick tip that might be helpful: if you want to 'quick start' your chapter check the instructions in the purple box on the Book chapter - Author guidelines page. This adds template material and creates an initial structure, which is what I've done so far to get started on my chapter. Hope this helps! U3012363 (discuss • contribs) 02:28, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello Stephanie
Hello! I am interested to see how your page develops. As you know, I'm doing Misophonia (thank you for your comments, by the way!), I'm not sure if our topics have a connection but I'll be checking by later just in case. Kind regards, u100155. --U100155 (discuss • contribs) 09:38, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Quiz
Hi there Stephanie! Love your topic (I am currently doing a topic on the hypothalamus and motivation - so obviously of a biological focus too). I noticed you haven't included a quiz yet, and whilst not required this may help with your topic. I find that our topics with main physiological focuses can become really dense with information and it is hard to keep the reader focussed on the topic. I find adding a quiz breaks up content and lets the reader engage with your content. I hope you don't mind but I have copied the template from the plain chapter and added it to your chapter page (It can be easily deleted) If you want more information on how to edit this quiz you can also go here ( For more information, see Help:Quiz.) All the best with your chapter! --U3144362 (discuss • contribs) 11:56, 16 October 2017 (UTC)u3144362 10:56PM

Hello Stephanie
Hello, as stated above, I am also very interested as to how your page develops. I am doing how neurotransmitters and emotion interact which is similar to your topic. I have come across an interesting TED talk about motivation. May be worth a quick listen TED Talk: The psychology of self-motivation - Scott Geller. All the best, Karl u3028335 6:00pm, 3 September 2017.

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-- Jtneill - Talk - c 13:25, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Articles that might be useful...
Hi Stephanie, Just thought I'd chuck a couple of references your way, which might help (you may already be super-organised so I apologise in advance if this is just info-overload at this stage!).

Anyway, this one is about dopamine and cocaine, and how cocaine affects the release of dopamine in rats, and how rats become motivated to look for more cocaine. LeBlanc, K.H., Maidment, N.T., & Ostlund, S.B. (2014). Impact of repeated intravenous cocaine administration on incentive motivation depends of mode of drug delivery. Addiction Biology, 19(6), 965-971. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12063 It might not be super-relevant but it is interesting because it might help explain the motivation behind cocaine addiction.

The next one is about dopamine and light. It showed that reduced dopamine reduced motivation to work for non-pharmacological reward (!!) and also that dopamine doesnt necessarily affect mood. Cawley, E.I., Park, S., aan het Rot, M., Sancton, K., Benkelfat, C., Young, S.N., Boivin, D.B., & Leyton, M. (2013). Dopamine and light: dissecting effects on mood and motivational states in women with subsyndromal seasonal affective disorder. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 38(6), 388-397. https://doi.org/10.1503/jpn.120181

Finally, this one: Achterberg, E.J.M., van Kerkhof, L.W.M., Servadio, M., van Swieten, M.M.H., Houwing, D.J., Aalderink, m., Driel, N.V., Trezza, V., & Vanderschuren, L.J.M.J. (2016). Contrasting roles of dopamine and noradrenaline in the motivational properties of social play behaviour in rats. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41(3), 858-868. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2015.212 found that dopamine increased motivation for social play while noradrenaline decreased it – in rats at least! Hope these articles might be of some use! Kind regards, Linda. --U100155 (discuss • contribs) 05:24, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Book chapter resubmission feedback
These changes were reviewed. Comments: -- Jtneill - Talk - c 03:13, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) The Overview is more catchy. Focus questions could be a helpful addition.
 * 2) The description of hormones and who they work is much improved.
 * 3) A very helpful summary table about the motivational effects of various hormones has been added.
 * 4) Some  and tags were removed without providing an appropriate citation or further information.
 * 5) The Conclusion still lacks detail and practical, take-home messages.
 * 6) There are some minor improvements to the formatting of the references.

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 11:16, 28 November 2017 (UTC)