Research shows new brain pathways in the striatum modulate dopamine, linking movement control to emotional decisions, enhancing our understanding of motivation. Credit: SciTechDaily.com MIT ...

Here, we investigated the role of the anterior dorsal striatum (ADS) in a rodent auditory evidence accumulation task using a combination of behavioral, pharmacological, optogenetic, ...

The striatum is an input structure of the basal ganglia implicated in several time-dependent functions including reinforcement learning, decision making, and interval timing. To determine whether ...