{"id":199105,"date":"2024-11-09T05:39:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/hidden-brain-pathways-uncovered-how-dopamine-shapes-movement-and-mood"},"modified":"2024-11-09T05:39:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:39:10","slug":"hidden-brain-pathways-uncovered-how-dopamine-shapes-movement-and-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/hidden-brain-pathways-uncovered-how-dopamine-shapes-movement-and-mood","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Brain Pathways Uncovered: How Dopamine Shapes Movement and Mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-brain-pathways-uncovered-how-dopamine-shapes-movement-and-mood3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> MIT researchers have uncovered two additional pathways in the brain\u2019s striatum that modulate traditional movement control pathways by influencing dopamine production.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>These pathways, connected to the brain\u2019s striosomes, may play a crucial role in decisions with strong emotional components, potentially altering our understanding of how motivation and movement are interconnected.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the human brain, movement is coordinated by a region called the striatum, which sends signals to motor neurons. These signals travel along two main pathways: one initiates movement (\u201cgo\u201d), and the other inhibits it (\u201cno-go\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers have uncovered two additional pathways in the brain\u2019s striatum that modulate traditional movement control pathways by influencing dopamine production. These pathways, connected to the brain\u2019s striosomes, may play a crucial role in decisions with strong emotional components, potentially altering our understanding of how motivation and movement are interconnected. In the human brain, movement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199105","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}