Citation

Moschak TM, Carelli RM. Neuron 2014; 84(1): 4-6.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: rcarelli@unc.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Cell Press)

DOI

10.1016/j.neuron.2014.09.017

PMID

25277448

Abstract

Dopamine neurons track reward by increasing or decreasing their firing rate when a reward is present or absent. In this issue of Neuron, Stopper et al. (2014) demonstrate that artificially eliminating these dopamine bursts or dips can alter risky decision-making.

Language: en