{"id":127745,"date":"2021-09-16T20:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T03:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/true-behavior-of-dopamine-will-reshape-how-we-treat-psychiatric-diseases-and-addiction"},"modified":"2021-09-16T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T03:22:16","slug":"true-behavior-of-dopamine-will-reshape-how-we-treat-psychiatric-diseases-and-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/true-behavior-of-dopamine-will-reshape-how-we-treat-psychiatric-diseases-and-addiction","title":{"rendered":"True Behavior of Dopamine Will Reshape How We Treat Psychiatric Diseases and Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/true-behavior-of-dopamine-will-reshape-how-we-treat-psychiatric-diseases-and-addiction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe then go on to show that dopamine is not a reward molecule at all. It instead helps encode information about all types of important and relevant events and drive adaptive behavior\u2014regardless of whether it is positive or negative.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>A new study finds dopamine increases responses to stressful stimuli, not just pleasurable ones. The findings could have implications for the treatment of mental health disorders and addiction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>Vanderbilt University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pioneering research shows that dopamine levels increase in response to stressful stimuli, and not just pleasurable ones, potentially rewriting facts about the \u201cfeel-good\u201d hormone\u2014a critical mediator of many psychiatric diseases. This discovery is cause to rethink treatment for psychiatric disease and addiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This research was led by Erin Calipari, assistant professor of pharmacology, and Munir Gunes Kutlu, a postdoctoral fellow in Calipari\u2019s laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe then go on to show that dopamine is not a reward molecule at all. It instead helps encode information about all types of important and relevant events and drive adaptive behavior\u2014regardless of whether it is positive or negative.\u201d Summary: A new study finds dopamine increases responses to stressful stimuli, not just pleasurable ones. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}