New Insights into Dopamine with Raj Awatramani, PhD, and Daniel Dombeck, PhD
Breakthroughs · Northwestern University
December 1, 202323m 46s
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Show Notes
When most of us think about dopamine, we think about reward signals. But new research from Northwestern Medicine, published in Nature Neuroscience, has found a genetic subtype of dopamine neurons that do not respond to rewards at all, and instead, fire when the body moves.
Rajeshwar Awatramani, PhD, and Daniel Dombeck, PhD led this work. In this episode they explain how the results could change the field of dopamine research