A new study from Northwestern University has provided insight into how dopamine, a neurotransmitter often associated with reward, also plays a critical role in helping animals avoid harm. The research ...
Brain scientists led by Sebastian Haesler (NERF, empowered by IMEC, KU Leuven and VIB) have identified a causal mechanism of how novel stimuli promote learning. Novelty directly activates the dopamine ...
Juvenile zebra finches undergo an intense learning process to master their songs, practicing up to 10,000 times a day. Despite initially producing disorganized vocalizations, young males persist in ...
My colleagues and I recently found that we were able to train mice to voluntarily increase the size and frequency of seemingly random dopamine impulses in their brains. Conventional wisdom in ...
Researchers have long established that hormones significantly affect the brain, creating changes in emotion, energy levels, and decision-making. However, the intricacies of these processes are not ...
If you've heard of two of the brain's chemical neurotransmitters, it's probably dopamine and serotonin. Never mind that glutamate and GABA do most of the work - it's the thrill of dopamine as the ...
A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience brings together two schools of thought on the function of the neurotransmitter dopamine: one saying that dopamine provides a learning signal ...
Researchers unravel the diverse functions of dopamine by using a virtual-reality system. Dopamine has its eggs in several baskets, contributing to brain functions such as learning, motivation and ...
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Parkinson’s breakthrough rewrites what we know about dopamine
For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a simple story of dwindling dopamine, a slow erosion of the brain’s ...
A team led by BBRF grantees has proposed a markedly new way of understanding the role of dopamine in the brain in processes involved in learning and memory. The revised view of the neurotransmitter ...
A team led by BBRF grantees has proposed a markedly new way of understanding the role of dopamine in the brain in processes involved in learning and memory. The revised view of the neurotransmitter ...
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