From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 08:54:25 MDT
I wrote:
> ### The abstract does not contain any clear statements supporting your
claims.
gts wrote:
The abstract states in plain English that anhedonia (the diminished capacity
to experience and reward and pleasure) has its biological underpinnings in
the mesolimbic dopamine system.
To say at another way, the biological underpinnings of the experience of
reward and pleasure are found in the mesolimbic dopamine system, as is
evident from the fact that defects in this system result in a diminished
capactity to experience reward and pleasure. It cannot be made any clearer
that.
### It can hardly be any less relevant to the claims I made.
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> Can you quote specific results from the article, excluding any role for
the
> cortex in anhedonia (not merely pointing to mesolimbic involvement, which
I
> do not deny)?
The researchers in this report were not attempting to prove the role of the
mesolimbic dopamine system in reward experience. They stated it as an
introductory statement, in order to inform the reader of an established
scientific fact.
### You are beating a dead horse. Please peruse my previous posts, so as to
avoid straying from the subject (which is, the role of the cortex in the
subjective experience of pleasure).
Rafal
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