Spontaneous dopamine pulses (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Spontaneous dopamine pulses

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UC San Diego researchers and their colleagues have discovered that spontaneous impulses of dopamine, the neurological messenger known as the brain's "feel good" chemical, occur in the brains of mice.

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Julia Kuhl

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