Antipsychotics represent the mainstay of schizophrenia pharmacological therapy, and their
role has been expanded in the last years to mood disorders treatment. Although introduced …

Dopamine fundamentally contributes to reinforcement learning, but recent accounts also
suggest a contribution to specific action selection mechanisms and the regulation of …

Some theories of human cultural evolution posit that humans have social-specific learning
mechanisms that are adaptive specialisations moulded by natural selection to cope with the …

The neurotransmitter dopamine is implicated in diverse functions, including reward
processing, reinforcement learning, and cognitive control. The tendency to discount future …

Introduction A recent approach to cure neurodegenerative diseases is to reprogram
fibroblasts into functioning neurons using multiple exogenous transcription factors (TFs) and …

Learning to be safe is central for adaptive behaviour when threats are no longer present.
Detecting the absence of an expected threat is key for threat extinction learning and an …

Animal studies show marked sex differences as well as effects of estrogen (E2) in the
mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic (DA) pathways, which play a critical role in reward …

Understanding the relationship between empathy, subjective effects of addictive reinforcers
and dopamine function in people with gambling disorder (PGD) vs. healthy controls (HCs) …

Dopamine fundamentally contributes to reinforcement learning by encoding predictions
errors, deviations of an outcome from expectation. Prediction error coding in dopaminergic …

The theory that various features of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can be explained by
differences in the learning (or “predictive coding”) process is growing in popularity. However …