We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Perhaps you experience it yourself when passing a cafe or restaurant and ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that doing just one new thing each day can significantly improve mood, ...

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Most people are familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting ...

We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus.

The pleasurable urge to move to music — to groove — appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we ...

Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Maersk Tower 7.5, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Bioinformatics, H Lundbeck A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark ...

Additionally, microdialysis experiments showed that suppressing cholinergic interneurons restored dopamine levels in the striatum, which had decreased by over 20% during nicotine withdrawal ...

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Here, we investigated the role of the anterior dorsal striatum (ADS) in a rodent auditory evidence accumulation task using a combination of behavioral, pharmacological, optogenetic, ...

The striatum has traditionally mainly been associated with playing a key role in the modulation of motor functions. Indeed, lesion studies in animals and studies of some neurological conditions in ...