Fatigue modulates dopamine availability and promotes flexible choice reversals during decision making

Abstract During decisions, animals balance goal achievement and effort management. Despite physical exercise and fatigue significantly affecting the levels of effort that an animal exerts to obtain a reward, their role in effort-based choice and the underlying neurochemistry are incompletely known....

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Main Authors: Pierpaolo Iodice, Claudio Ferrante, Luigi Brunetti, Simona Cabib, Feliciano Protasi, Mark E. Walton, Giovanni Pezzulo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00561-6