{"id":201253,"date":"2024-12-11T10:27:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/new-look-at-dopamine-signaling-suggests-neuroscientists-model-of-reinforcement-learning-may-need-to-be-revised"},"modified":"2024-12-11T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:27:41","slug":"new-look-at-dopamine-signaling-suggests-neuroscientists-model-of-reinforcement-learning-may-need-to-be-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/new-look-at-dopamine-signaling-suggests-neuroscientists-model-of-reinforcement-learning-may-need-to-be-revised","title":{"rendered":"New look at dopamine signaling suggests neuroscientists\u2019 model of reinforcement learning may need to be revised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-look-at-dopamine-signaling-suggests-neuroscientists-model-of-reinforcement-learning-may-need-to-be-revised2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dopamine is a powerful signal in the brain, influencing our moods, motivations, movements, and more. The neurotransmitter is crucial for reward-based learning, a function that may be disrupted in a number of psychiatric conditions, from mood disorders to addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers led by MIT Institute Professor Ann Graybiel have found surprising patterns of dopamine signaling that suggest neuroscientists may need to refine their model of how <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/reinforcement+learning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">reinforcement learning<\/a> occurs in the brain. The team\u2019s findings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-53176-7\" target=\"_blank\">were published<\/a> recently in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Dopamine plays a critical role in teaching people and other animals about the cues and behaviors that portend both positive and negative outcomes; the classic example of this type of learning is the dog that Ivan Pavlov trained to anticipate food at the sound of bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dopamine is a powerful signal in the brain, influencing our moods, motivations, movements, and more. The neurotransmitter is crucial for reward-based learning, a function that may be disrupted in a number of psychiatric conditions, from mood disorders to addiction. Now, researchers led by MIT Institute Professor Ann Graybiel have found surprising patterns of dopamine signaling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201253","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}