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Investigating the role of dopamine circuits in habit formation
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Investigating the role of dopamine circuits in habit formation

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,...