Uniform inhibition of dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area by aversive stimuli.
Dopamine neurons play a key role in reward-related behaviors. Reward coding theories predict that dopamine neurons will be inhibited by or will not respond to aversive stimuli. Paradoxically, between 3 and 49% of presumed dopamine neurons are excited by aversive stimuli. We found that, in the ventra...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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