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Nature Neuroscience 11, 880–881 (1 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/nn.2141

Regulating the expectation of reward via cognitive strategies

Mauricio R Delgado , M Meredith Gillis & Elizabeth A Phelps

Previous emotion regulation research has been successful in altering aversive emotional reactions. It is unclear, however, whether such strategies can also efficiently regulate expectations of reward arising from conditioned stimuli, which can at times be maladaptive (for example, drug cravings).