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Dopamine neurons projecting to the posterior striatum reinforce avoidance of threatening stimuli

Midbrain dopamine neurons are well known for their role in reward-based reinforcement learning. We found that the activity of dopamine axons in the posterior tail of the striatum (TS) scales with the novelty and intensity of external stimuli, but does not encode reward value. We demonstrated that th...

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Autores principales: Menegas, William, Akiti, Korleki, Amo, Ryunosuke, Uchida, Naoshige, Watabe-Uchida, Mitsuko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6160326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30177795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0222-1