{"id":225089,"date":"2025-11-14T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-research-reveals-how-estrogen-amplifies-the-brains-dopamine-signals"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:02:27","slug":"new-research-reveals-how-estrogen-amplifies-the-brains-dopamine-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-research-reveals-how-estrogen-amplifies-the-brains-dopamine-signals","title":{"rendered":"New research reveals how estrogen amplifies the brain\u2019s dopamine signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-reveals-how-estrogen-amplifies-the-brains-dopamine-signals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brain\u2019s ability to learn from rewards fluctuates with natural hormonal cycles, a new study in rats shows. Researchers report in Nature Neuroscience that peak estrogen levels amplify the dopamine signals that drive reinforcement learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain\u2019s ability to learn from rewards fluctuates with natural hormonal cycles, a new study in rats shows. Researchers report in Nature Neuroscience that peak estrogen levels amplify the dopamine signals that drive reinforcement learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225089","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}