Researchers at Duke Health have uncovered a connection between an immune system gene regulator, STAT1, and hyperactive ...

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The team focused its attention on the striatum, a region within the brain's basal ganglia, where neurons use dopamine to influence neural circuits involved in a variety of processes, including ...

Dopamine is a powerful signal in the brain, influencing our moods, motivations, movements, and more. The neurotransmitter is crucial for reward-based learning, a function that may be disrupted in a ...

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Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Negative Carbon Technologies, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China ...

Spiny projection neurons (SPNs) in dorsal striatum are often proposed as a locus of reinforcement learning in the basal ganglia. Here ... activity associated with elevated or suppressed dopamine ...

Initially, the patient presented with abnormal high signals in the right basal ganglia on MRI, misdiagnosed as a cavernous hemangioma. However, within 2 years, the condition rapidly progressed into a ...