Dopamine Signaling Is Critical for Supporting Cue-Driven Behavioral Control

Mihaela D Iordanova

doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.05.002

Dopamine Signaling Is Critical for Supporting Cue-Driven Behavioral Control

Neuroscience. 2019 Aug 1:412:257-258. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.05.002. Epub 2019 May 17.

Author

Mihaela D Iordanova¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychology/Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

PMID: 31103706
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.05.002

Abstract

Mesolimbic dopamine has been implicated in reward learning. Fischbach-Weiss and Janak (this issue) use optogenetics to attenuate dopamine signaling and study its role in cue-driven motivated behavior.

Keywords: action; learning; memory; mesolimbic dopamine; reward.

Publication types

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MeSH terms

Animals
Cues*
Dopamine*
Nucleus Accumbens
Optogenetics
Reward

Substances

Dopamine