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It would clearly be of great interest to determine which anhedonia constructs are impacted by MFB stimulation in patients with treatment-resistant depression. Might this be done by comparing appropriate behavioral measures acquired prior to and after the onset of stimulation or a patient-initiated pause ( Kilian et al., 2019)? Behavioral Activation

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Bielajew, C., and Shizgal, P. (1982). Behaviorally derived measures of conduction velocity in the substrate for rewarding medial forebrain bundle stimulation. Brain Res. 237, 107–119. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(82)90560-1 Deutsch, J. A., Adams, D. W., and Metzner, R. J. (1964). Choice of intracranial stimulation as a function of delay between stimulations and strength of competing drive. J. Comparat. Physiol. Psychol. 57, 241–243. doi: 10.1037/h0047915 Dougherty, D. D., Rezai, A. R., Carpenter, L. L., Howland, R. H., Bhati, M. T., O’Reardon, J. P., et al. (2015). A Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Chronic Treatment-Resistant Depression. Biol. Psychiat. 78, 240–248. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.11.023The failure of psychomotor stimulants to serve as an effective monotherapy for depression invites reconsideration of a series-circuit model of the antidepressant effect of MFB stimulation. An alternative, analogous to the convergence model of intracranial MFB self-stimulation, would include multiple, convergent pathways. On that view, non-dopaminergic MFB components may contribute to the therapeutic effect in parallel to, in synergy with, or even instead of, a dopaminergic component. To assess those possibilities, we must look in more detail at the neuroanatomical complexity of the region where MFB stimulation is effective in relieving treatment-resistant depression and at the methods that have been used to link that effect to particular fiber bundles. Which Neurons Are Activated Directly by Therapeutically Effective Stimulation of the Medial Forebrain Bundle, and Which Are Responsible for the Antidepressant Effect? Franklin, K. B. (1978). Catecholamines and self-stimulation: reward and performances effects dissociated. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 9, 813–820. doi: 10.1016/0091-3057(78)90361-1 Fouriezos, G., Bielajew, C., and Pagotto, W. (1990). Task difficulty increases thresholds of rewarding brain stimulation. Behav. Brain Res. 37, 1–7. doi: 10.1016/0166-4328(90)90066-n Cooper, J. A., Arulpragasam, A. R., and Treadway, M. T. (2018). Anhedonia in depression: biological mechanisms and computational models. Curr. Opin. Behav. Sci. 22, 128–135. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.01.024 Like the reward-mountain method, the effort-expenditure-for-rewards-task developed for use in experiments with human participants measures reward pursuit as a function of both the cost and strength of reward ( Treadway et al., 2009). Thus, this task could achieve the same distinction as the reward-mountain method between variables acting at, or prior, to the input of the reward-growth function and variables acting at, or beyond, its output. However, such a distinction is possible only when the direction in which the mountain surface can be determined. A non-linear reward-growth function is required. The use of small monetary rewards may well fail to provide the required non-linearity. We speculate that the required non-linearity would be achieved if a reward that had to be consumed in the laboratory at the end of the session were substituted for the monetary payoffs. For example, a chocolate lover could be informed that they had the opportunity to earn various amounts of their preferred variety, with the proviso that they had to consume it within a given time period at the end of the session. The reward-growth function for such a payoff will saturate because the participant will know that amounts beyond a given mass will exceed what could reasonably be consumed and enjoyed within the available time.

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Why should there be some regions that are specialized for value and familiarity memory and some that combine both types of information ? 24. To begin with, value and novelty have different origins and require different neural computations and thus can naturally arise in separate circuits. Furthermore, maintaining separate circuitry for value and novelty could be important in cases where decisions have to be made based on one aspect of object memory independent of the others. On the other hand, in cases where object salience regardless of origin is important, a node with access to a common salience signal such as vlPFC can control behavior more efficiently. In the following subsections we summarize evidence that gave rise to the series-circuit hypothesis as well as evidence that challenges this longstanding account of brain-reward circuitry. We then discuss the implications of the convergence model for interpretation of the effect of MFB stimulation on relief of treatment-resistant depression. Intracranial Self-Stimulation of the Medial Forebrain Bundle: Phenomenology Arvanitogiannis, A., and Shizgal, P. (2008). The reinforcement mountain: allocation of behavior as a function of the rate and intensity of rewarding brain stimulation. Behav. Neurosci. 122, 1126–1138. doi: 10.1037/a0012679

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