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SUBMITTER: Evers EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5390715 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evers E A EA Stiers P P Ramaekers J G JG
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20170201 2
Dopamine plays an important role in goal-directed behavior, through its modulatory influence on striatal neurons. It is unclear whether tonic dopamine levels, which regulate the vigor of acting, interact with the phasic dopamine response to reward that drives instrumental behavior. In a randomized placebo-controlled study in healthy volunteers, we show that methylphenidate, a drug that increases tonic dopamine levels, systematically reduced striatal phasic BOLD responses to gain and loss in a ga ...[more]