In the team's simplest experiments, where every time a mouse saw a light it was paired with a reward, the lateral part of the striatum reliably released dopamine when animals were given their water.

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in the mouse striatum. SPN subpopulations are generally divided into those that express D1 dopamine receptors and those that express D2 dopamine receptors. Recently, it was shown that these ...