Layered reward signalling through octopamine and dopamine in Drosophila

Christopher J. Burke, Wolf Huetteroth, David Owald, Emmanuel Perisse, Michael J. Krashes, Gaurav Das, Daryl Gohl, Marion Silies, Sarah Certel and Scott Waddell ()
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Christopher J. Burke: University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
Wolf Huetteroth: Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, The University of Oxford, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR, UK
David Owald: Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, The University of Oxford, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR, UK
Emmanuel Perisse: Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, The University of Oxford, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR, UK
Michael J. Krashes: University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
Gaurav Das: Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, The University of Oxford, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR, UK
Daryl Gohl: Stanford University
Marion Silies: Stanford University
Sarah Certel: University of Montana
Scott Waddell: University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA

Nature, 2012, vol. 492, issue 7429, 433-437

Abstract: Dopamine is synonymous with reward in mammals but associated with aversive reinforcement in insects, where reward seems to be signalled by octopamine; here it is shown that flies have discrete populations of dopamine neurons representing positive or negative values that are coordinately regulated by octopamine.

Date: 2012
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