Featured article of EJN issue 36-3: Insulin in the ventral tegmental area reduces hedonic feeding and suppresses dopamine concentration via increased reuptake Dmitry. M. Mebel, Jovi. C. Y. Wong, Yifei. J. Dong, Stephanie. L. Borgland Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada. Mesolimbic dopamine (DA) signaling has …
Dynamics of anticipatory mechanisms during predictive context processing by A. Bidet-Caulet, P.G. Barbe, S. Roux, H. Viswanath, C. Barthelemy, N. Bruneau, R.T. Knight and F. Bonnet-Brilhault Abstract We employed an electroencephalography paradigm manipulating predictive context to dissociate the neural dynamics of anticipatory mechanisms. Subjects either detected random targets or targets preceded by a …
Interview of Terry E. Robinson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), corresponding author of the article “The role of dopamine in the accumbens core in the expression of Pavlovian-conditioned responses”, first published online in EJN on July 11, 2012. In this interview, Terry Robinson explains the aim of this study and summarizes its findings. …