Decision making: Dopaminergic neurons for better or worse

Ilona C Grunwald Kadow; David Owald

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.043

Decision making: Dopaminergic neurons for better or worse

Curr Biol. 2022 Nov 7;32(21):R1237-R1240. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.043.

Authors

Ilona C Grunwald Kadow¹, David Owald²

Affiliations

¹ University of Bonn, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Physiology, Nussallee 11, 53115 Bonn, Germany. Electronic address: ilona.grunwald@uni-bonn.de.
² Institute of Neurophysiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: david.owald@charite.de.

PMID: 36347234
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.043

Abstract

All animals constantly need to weigh their options based on new experiences: something initially considered bad can become better in the light of something worse. A new study now shows how flies re-evaluate between better and worse.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Decision Making* / physiology
Dopaminergic Neurons*