<p>Can someone please tell me how negative rewards or punishments are processed in the human brain? Do we have a separate segment to process positive and negative reward and are the positive and negative rewards processed in the same fashion?</p>

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2018-05-23T07:05:57.253Z
What do you mean by 'segment'? We expect questions here to be based on a minimal amount of initial research. Could you include some references to things this question is based on?
Steven Jeuris
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2022-08-06T04:11:25.080Z
Also, what do you mean by positive or negative rewards or punishments - these are very different terms?  Do you perhaps mean pleasure and pain instead?  I think this is a duplicate of: [Do we understand the non-subjective mechanisms behind pleasure and pain?](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/q/488/7001) or possibly [Is there a region of the brain that mediates pain in a manner reminiscent of the mesolimbic pathway?](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/q/20736/7001)
Arnon Weinberg
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Negative Rewards(punishment) processing in Human Brain?
Arjun Manoharan
# Negative Rewards(punishment) processing in Human Brain?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-05-23)

Can someone please tell me how negative rewards or punishments are processed in the human brain? Do we have a separate segment to process positive and negative reward and are the positive and negative rewards processed in the same fashion?

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> **username_1**: What do you mean by 'segment'? We expect questions here to be based on a minimal amount of initial research. Could you include some references to things this question is based on?  
> **username_2**: Also, what do you mean by positive or negative rewards or punishments - these are very different terms?  Do you perhaps mean pleasure and pain instead?  I think this is a duplicate of: [Do we understand the non-subjective mechanisms behind pleasure and pain?](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/q/488/7001) or possibly [Is there a region of the brain that mediates pain in a manner reminiscent of the mesolimbic pathway?](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/q/20736/7001)  

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