Kyle S. Smith

Disentangling pleasure from incentive salience and learning signals in brain reward circuitry

Kyle S. Smith, Kent Berridge, J. Wayne Aldridge · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 460 citations

Opioid Limbic Circuit for Reward: Interaction between Hedonic Hotspots of Nucleus Accumbens and Ventral Pallidum

Kyle S. Smith, Kent Berridge · Journal of Neuroscience · 2007 · 453 citations · Full text

The Ventral Pallidum and Hedonic Reward: Neurochemical Maps of Sucrose “Liking” and Food Intake

Kyle S. Smith, Kent Berridge · Journal of Neuroscience · 2005 · 389 citations · Full text

Neuropsychology, Affective Neuroscience, Food Intake +22

Endocannabinoid Hedonic Hotspot for Sensory Pleasure: Anandamide in Nucleus Accumbens Shell Enhances ‘Liking’ of a Sweet Reward

Stephen V. Mahler, Kyle S. Smith, Kent Berridge · Neuropsychopharmacology · 2007 · 370 citations · Full text

Cannabis Use, Behavioral Sciences, Endocannabinoid Hedonic Hotspot +15

A Dual Operator View of Habitual Behavior Reflecting Cortical and Striatal Dynamics

Kyle S. Smith, Ann M. Graybiel · Neuron · 2013 · 324 citations · Full text

Striatal Dynamics, Neurobiological Mechanism, Cognitive Science +11