{"id":202024,"date":"2024-12-20T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T20:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/reward-based-learning-neuroscientists-demonstrate-dopamine-and-serotonin-work-in-opposition-to-shape-learning"},"modified":"2024-12-20T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T20:25:42","slug":"reward-based-learning-neuroscientists-demonstrate-dopamine-and-serotonin-work-in-opposition-to-shape-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/reward-based-learning-neuroscientists-demonstrate-dopamine-and-serotonin-work-in-opposition-to-shape-learning","title":{"rendered":"Reward-based Learning\u2014 Neuroscientists demonstrate Dopamine and Serotonin Work in Opposition to Shape Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reward-based-learning-neuroscientists-demonstrate-dopamine-and-serotonin-work-in-opposition-to-shape-learning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve heard of two of the brain\u2019s chemical neurotransmitters, it\u2019s probably dopamine and serotonin. Never mind that glutamate and GABA do most of the work\u2014it\u2019s the thrill of dopamine as the \u201cpleasure chemical\u201d and serotonin as a tender mood-stabilizer that attract all the headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the headlines mostly get it wrong. Dopamine\u2019s role in shaping behavior goes way beyond simple concepts like \u201cpleasure\u201d or even \u201creward\u201d. And the fact that it takes weeks or months for serotonin-boosting SSRI antidepressants to work suggests that it\u2019s not actually the immediate jump in serotonin levels that drum out the doldrums of depression, but some still-mysterious shift in downstream brain circuits.<\/p>\n<p>A new study from Stanford\u2019s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute reveals yet another new facet of these mood-managing molecules. The research, published November 25, 2024 in Nature, demonstrates for the first time exactly how dopamine and serotonin work together\u2014or more precisely, in opposition\u2014to shape our behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve heard of two of the brain\u2019s chemical neurotransmitters, it\u2019s probably dopamine and serotonin. Never mind that glutamate and GABA do most of the work\u2014it\u2019s the thrill of dopamine as the \u201cpleasure chemical\u201d and serotonin as a tender mood-stabilizer that attract all the headlines. Of course, the headlines mostly get it wrong. Dopamine\u2019s role [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202024","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}