Explaining dopamine through prediction errors and beyond

SJ Gershman, JA Assad, SR Datta, SW Linderman… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The most influential account of phasic dopamine holds that it reports reward prediction
errors (RPEs). The RPE-based interpretation of dopamine signaling is, in its original form …

[HTML][HTML] Toward a neuroscience of natural behavior

P Cisek, AM Green - Current opinion in Neurobiology, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the most exciting new developments in systems neuroscience is the progress being
made toward neurophysiological experiments that move beyond simplified laboratory …

Semaglutide reduces alcohol intake and relapse-like drinking in male and female rats

C Aranäs, CE Edvardsson, OT Shevchouk, Q Zhang… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Glucagon-like peptide1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists have been found to reduce
alcohol drinking in rodents and overweight patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) …

Behavioural and dopaminergic signatures of resilience

L Willmore, C Cameron, J Yang, IB Witten, AL Falkner - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic stress can have lasting adverse consequences in some individuals, yet others are
resilient to the same stressor,. Susceptible and resilient individuals exhibit differences in the …

Lightning Pose: improved animal pose estimation via semi-supervised learning, Bayesian ensembling and cloud-native open-source tools

D Biderman, MR Whiteway, C Hurwitz, N Greenspan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contemporary pose estimation methods enable precise measurements of behavior via
supervised deep learning with hand-labeled video frames. Although effective in many cases …

Lateral entorhinal cortex subpopulations represent experiential epochs surrounding reward

JB Issa, BA Radvansky, F Xuan, DA Dombeck - Nature neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
During goal-directed navigation,'what'information, describing the experiences occurring in
periods surrounding a reward, can be combined with spatial 'where'information to guide …

Surprise and novelty in the brain

A Modirshanechi, S Becker, J Brea… - Current opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Notions of surprise and novelty have been used in various experimental and theoretical
studies across multiple brain areas and species. However,'surprise'and 'novelty'refer to …

Multimodal sensory control of motor performance by glycinergic interneurons of the mouse spinal cord deep dorsal horn

MA Gradwell, N Ozeri-Engelhard, JT Eisdorfer… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Sensory feedback is integral for contextually appropriate motor output, yet the neural circuits
responsible remain elusive. Here, we pinpoint the medial deep dorsal horn of the mouse …

A feature-specific prediction error model explains dopaminergic heterogeneity

RS Lee, Y Sagiv, B Engelhard, IB Witten… - Nature neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
The hypothesis that midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons broadcast a reward prediction error
(RPE) is among the great successes of computational neuroscience. However, recent …

Curiosity: primate neural circuits for novelty and information seeking

IE Monosov - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
For many years, neuroscientists have investigated the behavioural, computational and
neurobiological mechanisms that support value-based decisions, revealing how humans …