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Dopamine primes the brain for enhanced vigilance

Wednesday, Nov 07
… Dopamine primes the brain for enhanced vigilance November 7, … attention to focus on potential threats prefrontal cortex Dopamine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0682-1 … to focus on potential threats. They also found that dopamine is key to the process: It is released in the brain’s …
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Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors

Thursday, Jun 11
… Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate … invents new open-source microscopy platform C. elegans Dopamine neuromodulation Neuromodulators … using this new imaging approach. Behaviors coordinated by dopamine But one of the most pronounced new behavioral …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/666

Circuit model may explain how deep brain stimulation treats Parkinson’s disease symptoms

Monday, May 16
… movement, study suggests striatum deep brain stimulation Dopamine neurodegeneration … 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 …
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Scientists seek insight into Parkinson’s, addiction by tracking gene expression in the brain

Monday, Jan 04
… Y. Mathers Foundation neurodegeneration mRNA epigenetics Dopamine Two MIT neuroscientists have received grants from … 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 …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/740

How the brain selectively remembers new places

Monday, Dec 25
… and this activity triggers the release of a flood of dopamine into a certain region of the hippocampus to store a … to exert this effect by releasing the neuromodulator dopamine into the CA3 region, which was surprising because … hippocampus. The researchers believe that this influx of dopamine helps to boost CA3’s ability to strengthen synapses …
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How the brain responds to surprising events

Wednesday, Jun 01
… neuromodulators that influence the brain, along with dopamine, serotonin, and acetylcholine. Unlike … While scientists have learned much about the role of dopamine in motivation and reward pursuit, less is known … noradrenaline and other neuromodulators, especially dopamine, which also responds to unexpected rewards. They …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/924

Steven Flavell earns Sloan Research Fellowship

Tuesday, Feb 16
… internal states that guide animal behavior C. elegans Dopamine behavior Internal states With a competitive new …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/756

Alumnus gives MIT $4.5 million to establish the Broderick Fund for Phytocannabinoid Research

Tuesday, Apr 30
… effects of phytocannabinoids in the brain, including on dopamine-containing neurons (turquoise) in basal ganglia … recently found that CB1 receptors are tightly linked to dopamine — a neurotransmitter that affects both mood and … implicated in learning and habit formation, may influence dopamine release in the brain. These findings will be …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/508

Kay Tye Receives the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award

Tuesday, Nov 15
… to) the dopaminergic system and the amygdala. Although dopamine has historically been viewed as a neurotransmitter …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/81

Study finds hub linking movement and motivation in the brain

Thursday, Sep 19
… mediates goal-directed behaviors via the neurotransmitter dopamine. But until now, no one had shown that the LS …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/574

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