Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
May 07, 2025
May 07, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 7 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:
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Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
Dangers come but dangers also go, and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear. A new study in mice by MIT neuroscientists shows that the signal is the release of dopamine along a specific interregional brain circuit. The research therefore pinpoi . . .
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Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
Dangers come but dangers also go, and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear. A new study in mice by MIT neuroscientists shows that the signal is the release of dopamine along a specific interregional brain circuit. The research therefore pinpoi . . .