Dopamine, striatal circuits and reward learning - Patricia Janak

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Thursday, December 12, 2019
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12:00pm to 1:00pm PST
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neuroscience@stanford.edu
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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
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Patricia Janak

Patricia Janak, PhD 

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor,
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; and Neuroscience,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Host: John Huguenard

Janak Lab

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[1] Ronald Keiflin, Heather J. Pribut, Nisha B. Shah, Patricia H. Janak. Ventral Tegmental Dopamine Neurons Participate in Reward Identity Predictions.Current Biology 29, 93–103, January 7, 2019. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.050

[2] Benjamin T. Saunders, Jocelyn M. Richard, Elyssa B. Margolis and Patricia H. Janak. Dopamine neurons create Pavlovian conditioned stimuli with circuit-defined motivational properties.Nature Neuroscience. Vol 21. August. 1072 2018. 1072–1083. doi: 10.1038/s41593-018-0191-4