Plus, cell staining of the monkey's brains revealed that most of the neurons that became light-sensitive were ...

German neuroscientist Wolfram Schultz’s team was recording the activity of dopamine cells while monkeys reached for treats, ...

Naturally rewarding stimuli (i.e. food, sex, etc) increase the activity of dopamine cells in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system causing increased dopamine release in brain areas such as the nucleus ...

Figure 1: Lentiviral GDNF delivery is neuroprotective in the monkey Parkinson Disease model ... in combination with an upregulation of dopamine turnover in spared dopamine neurons.

The researchers triggered a similar loss of cells in macaque monkeys, then used human ... adult cell types - in the case of this experiment, dopamine neurons. Brain cell therapy 'promising ...

The animal's cooperation during blood collection guarantees that the results of the experiment will not be unnecessarily confounded by distress reactions (no significant cortisol response during this ...

because of this shared dopamine action. Step into our sound booth and listen to these tones. Unless you’re about to make a big decision… In a series of seven different experiments, the researchers ...

because of this shared dopamine action. In a series of seven different experiments, the researchers tested the idea by assigning 1,600 people a task wherein they had to choose between a safe and a ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Neuralink has used the monkeys in its experiments to advertise its progress. The company released footage in April of a monkey apparently using the Neuralink device to play the video game "Pong." ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. In August 2021, while promoting her new book “Dopamine Nation,” the Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke ...