by Melissa Rohman, Northwestern University Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111228 Scientists have uncovered how dopamine connects subregions of the striatum essential for habit formation, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Cell Reports, findings that may change the overall understanding of how habits are formed—and could be broken. “The circuits are going both ways,...
by The Scripps Research Institute Scripps Research, Florida Neuroscience Professor Ron Davis, PhD, has discovered a mechanism underlying transient forgetting. Credit: Scripps Research In a landmark neurobiology study, scientists from Scripps Research have discovered a memory gating system that employs the neurotransmitter dopamine to direct transient forgetting, a temporary lapse of memory which spontaneously returns. The study adds a new pin to...
