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The role of DAT1 gene on the rapid detection of task novelty.
Neuropsychologia - 1 Dec 2010
Garcia-Garcia M, Barceló F, Clemente I C, Escera C
Abstract excerpt
In an environment with a myriad of different stimuli, the fast detection of novel and behaviorally relevant signals becomes crucial for an adaptive behavior. The detection of task-novelty has been related to striatum-prefrontal cortex (PFC) pathways involving dopaminergic (DA) neurotransmission. Here we thus tested the hypothesis that DA regulates the detection of task novelty through the modulation of the...
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