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… April 28, 2025 Research Findings Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten Study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to … neuroscientists shows that the signal is the release of dopamine along a specific interregional brain circuit. The …

… June 11, 2020 Research Findings Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate … using this new imaging approach. Behaviors coordinated by dopamine But one of the most pronounced new behavioral … together. It turned out to hinge on the neurotransmitter dopamine, which is abundant in all animals including humans. …

… November 7, 2018 Research findings Dopamine primes the brain for enhanced vigilance Imagine a … to focus on potential threats. They also found that dopamine is key to the process: It is released in the brain’s … prioritizing, decision-making etc.). It’s as though dopamine is the signal that tells the router to switch over …

… three-year awards that formally began Jan. 1, 2021. Above: Dopamine producing neurons in the brain's substantia nigra … of the MRI-detectable sensors that he has developed is for dopamine, a neuromodulator that is key to learning what … lead to reward. Addictive drugs artificially drive dopamine release, thereby hijacking the brain’s reward …

… that the disorder’s sleep symptoms are further mediated by dopamine. Individuals with bipolar mania persistently … By making the additional finding that knocking out dopamine D2 receptors mediate daytime sleep loss without … the short-sleep and other phenotypes on the basis of the dopamine D2 receptors,” Honda said. At the press conference, …

… more than neurons, new project posits astrocyte astrocytes Dopamine Artificial Intelligence Glia Computational …

… They synthesize and “prescribe” neuromodulators—serotonin, dopamine, endocannabinoids, norepinephrine, etc.—whenever and … brain of a mouse. Image by Gabbi Drummond. Traditionally dopamine has been associated with learning from reward and … in learning from reward (and punishment), like its cousin dopamine. This line of research in Sur’s lab reached a major …

… disease is that a deficit of the neuromodulator dopamine is associated with abnormally high beta-frequency … used mathematical models to show how, in the absence of dopamine, runaway beta might arise in the striatum from … work posits that under healthy conditions, with adequate dopamine, cells in the striatum called fast-spiking …

… Steven Flavell earns Sloan Research Fellowship C. elegans Dopamine behavior Internal states Neural Circuits Motivation …