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·November 11, 2022·3 min read

What Happens to the Dopamine System When We Experience Aversive Events?

The dopamine system helps the brain anticipate the occurrence and duration of unpleasant events, but without taking errors into account.

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·October 21, 2022·5 min read

Prior Stressful Events Can Help Build Resilience

A display of defensive behaviors, when faced with an aggressive mouse, predicted a smaller mouse's ability to become resilient following a traumatic event. Stimulating dopamine production in defensive smaller mice induced resilience.

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·October 21, 2022·3 min read

Gender-Specific Differences in the Progression of Rheumatoid Arthritis Discovered

Study reveals gender-specific differences in the dopamine-regulated signaling pathways in B-cells, concluding dopamine may have a pro-inflammatory effect in female rheumatoid arthritis patients.

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·October 21, 2022·4 min read

A New Environment Boosts Your Memory (But Not for Everyone)

Exploring a new environment helps boost dopamine levels which are projected to the hippocampus, decreasing the threshold for learning. However, in older people, the novelty of a new environment doesn't boost memory as much as it does in younger people.

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·September 29, 2022·4 min read

Unraveling the Reward Behavior: The Mechanisms Underlying the Dopamine Signaling Pathway

The direct phosphorylation of KCNQ2 by ERK occurs through the activation of the dopamine signaling pathway in the nucleus accumbens of mice.

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·September 27, 2022·3 min read

Mechanisms of Psychostimulants on Attention and Learning Revealed

Psychostimulants increase dopamine levels, enhancing task-relevant cortical signals by acting on the striatum and the difference in dopamine synthesis capacity in the striatum explains the variability in the drugs' cognitive effects.

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·September 23, 2022·2 min read

How an Addicted Brain Works

Addiction occurs as a result of the reward system becoming overwhelmed in a way that leads to chronic and permanent alterations in the brain.

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·September 22, 2022·3 min read

Aged Neurons Generated Directly From Skin More Accurately Model Parkinson’s Disease

Researchers successfully turned skin cells from Parkinson's patients into dopaminergic neurons by introducing a combination of neural-inducing genes into the skin cells.

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·September 21, 2022·8 min read

Rare Human Gene Variant in ADHD, Autism Exposes Fundamental Sex Differences

Female mice show effects of the DAT mutation in brain regions unaffected in males, and vice versa. The findings reveal surprising differences in dopamine synapses between males and females controlling attention, pleasure, and motivation

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·September 12, 2022·5 min read

Exercise Hormone Halts Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms

Irisin, a hormone secreted into the blood during high endurance and aerobic exercise, reduces levels of alpha-synuclein and restores movement in mouse models of Parkinson's disease.

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·August 31, 2022·5 min read

Tiny Brain Area Controls Work for Rewards

The lateral habenula is responsible for determining whether an animal is willing to work for rewards, and when it will stop working.

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·August 25, 2022·4 min read

Investigating the Role of Dopamine Circuits in Habit Formation

Dopamine neurons connect subregions of the striatum that contribute to habit formation. The findings shed new light on how habits are formed, and how they can be broken.

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dopamine

What Happens to the Dopamine System When We Experience Aversive Events?

Prior Stressful Events Can Help Build Resilience

Gender-Specific Differences in the Progression of Rheumatoid Arthritis Discovered

A New Environment Boosts Your Memory (But Not for Everyone)

Unraveling the Reward Behavior: The Mechanisms Underlying the Dopamine Signaling Pathway

Mechanisms of Psychostimulants on Attention and Learning Revealed

How an Addicted Brain Works

Aged Neurons Generated Directly From Skin More Accurately Model Parkinson’s Disease

Rare Human Gene Variant in ADHD, Autism Exposes Fundamental Sex Differences

Exercise Hormone Halts Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms

Tiny Brain Area Controls Work for Rewards

Investigating the Role of Dopamine Circuits in Habit Formation

AI Body Gap: Why Robots Need “Internal Feelings” to be Safe

Wetware AI: Living Brain Cells Trained to Run Chaos Math

Mapping the Brain’s Internal Stopwatch

Individual Cone Cells Create Our Sharpest Sight

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