What could be the adaptative reason of the " mesolimbic motivational system" activated both by "rewarding stimuli" and by "punishing stimuli" ?

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As described in the paper " Incentive motivational salience and the human brain" by Jimmy Jensen and Henrik Walter? ( Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience 32 ( 2014 ) 141-147

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