Rat behavior and dopamine release are modulated by conspecific distress

Rat behavior and dopamine release are modulated by conspecific distress

Rats exhibit ‘empathy’ making them a model to understand the neural underpinnings of such behavior. We show data consistent with these findings, but also that behavior and dopamine (DA) release reflects subjective rather than objective evaluation of appetitive and aversive events that occur to anoth...

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Main Authors: Nina T Lichtenberg, Brian Lee, Vadim Kashtelyan, Bharadwaja S Chappa, Henok T Girma, Elizabeth A Green, Shir Kantor, Dave A Lagowala, Matthew A Myers, Danielle Potemri, Meredith G Pecukonis, Robel T Tesfay, Michael S Walters, Adam C Zhao, R James R Blair, Joseph F Cheer, Matthew R Roesch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-11-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
dopamine
accumbens
striatum
empathy
social
reward
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/38090

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https://elifesciences.org/articles/38090

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