The goal of this study was to investigate the role of dopamine in reward and punishment processing in the fly brain, and to identify specific neuronal populations mediating these functions. We screened over 50 transgenic Drosophila lines, each labeling distinct […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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In mammals, dopamine is considered a central neuromodulator involved in all kinds of rewarding experiences (‘common currency’ hypothesis). In insects, the role of dopaminergic neurons in aversive stimuli was discovered before dopaminergic neurons were found to also be involved in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
