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Dopamine ramps up

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We thought we had figured out dopamine, a neuromodulator involved in everything from learning to addiction. But the finding that dopamine levels ramp up as rats navigate to a reward may overthrow current theories. See Letter p.575

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Figure 1: Rewards and the brain.

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  1. Yael Niv is at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.,

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