The gut and heart’s role in reward processing
Reward processing, which ensures survival, has evolved to also shape emotions, learning, and overall well-being. While traditional models of reward have focused predominantly on central neural circuits, emerging evidence underscores the role of peripheral bodily signals. This represents a new opport...
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| description | Reward processing, which ensures survival, has evolved to also shape emotions, learning, and overall well-being. While traditional models of reward have focused predominantly on central neural circuits, emerging evidence underscores the role of peripheral bodily signals. This represents a new opportunity by which we may understand neurological and neuropsychiatric health. In this review, we explore the gut-brain and heart-brain interfaces in reward processing, delineating their contributions across distinct phases of reward and offering insights into their bioenergetic significance. By framing this interplay within an adaptive and clinical context, we propose new avenues for understanding and treating neuropsychiatric disorders through a mind–body medicine lens. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7d14bd721fb34f5b9cc45f7b3e7542ad2025-08-20T03:28:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience1662-51452025-07-011910.3389/fnint.2025.14799231479923The gut and heart’s role in reward processingMinel Arinel0Karim Abdelaal1Naumann Laboratory, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United StatesThe Collective for Psychiatric Neuroengineering, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United StatesReward processing, which ensures survival, has evolved to also shape emotions, learning, and overall well-being. While traditional models of reward have focused predominantly on central neural circuits, emerging evidence underscores the role of peripheral bodily signals. This represents a new opportunity by which we may understand neurological and neuropsychiatric health. In this review, we explore the gut-brain and heart-brain interfaces in reward processing, delineating their contributions across distinct phases of reward and offering insights into their bioenergetic significance. By framing this interplay within an adaptive and clinical context, we propose new avenues for understanding and treating neuropsychiatric disorders through a mind–body medicine lens.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2025.1479923/fullrewardgut-brainheart-brainadaptive behaviorbioenergeticsinteroceptive therapeutics |
| spellingShingle | Minel Arinel Karim Abdelaal The gut and heart’s role in reward processing Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience reward gut-brain heart-brain adaptive behavior bioenergetics interoceptive therapeutics |
| title | The gut and heart’s role in reward processing |
| title_full | The gut and heart’s role in reward processing |
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| title_short | The gut and heart’s role in reward processing |
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| topic | reward gut-brain heart-brain adaptive behavior bioenergetics interoceptive therapeutics |
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