How dopamine drives brain activity
New research from MIT about how dopamine works in the brain provides more detailed insight into the pathways we discuss in chapter 9: http://news.mit.edu/2020/dopamine-brain-activity-mri-0401 . Here is a link to the research publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2158-3
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