La dopamina apoya la predicción de recompensas para dar forma a la estrategia de búsqueda de recompensas

Melissa Malvaez1, Andrea Suarez1, Nicholas K Griffin1

  • 1Dept. of Psychology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Resumen

Las señales ambientales dan forma a la búsqueda de recompensas al influir en la liberación de dopamina en el núcleo accumbens central (NAc). Esta liberación de dopamina, impulsada por la predicción de recompensas, dicta si se debe buscar o verificar recompensas, lo que afecta los comportamientos relacionados con la adicción y la depresión.

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