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Cortical dopamine reduces the impact of motivational biases governing automated behaviour
2021-09-10
Abstract excerpt
Motivations shape our behaviour: the promise of reward invigorates, while in the face of punishment, we hold back. Abnormalities of motivational processing are implicated in clinical disorders characterised by excessive habits and loss of top-down control, notably substance and behavioural addictions. Striatal and frontal dopamine have been hypothesised to play complementary roles in the respective generation and...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1277bce7-ed50-508c-bfe6-342d7afefb12
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.09.09.459267
