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10 Cards in this Set
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Dopamine
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involved in incentive motivation
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Serotonin
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involved in mood and attention
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Norepinephrine
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is involved in alertness and focus
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GABA
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necessary for turning or neurons off
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Glutamate
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major excitatory neurostransmitter in the nervous system and is involved in most aspects of normal brain function including cognition, memory and learning.
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Incentive Salience
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the "wanting" of incentive salience is a motivational magnet quality of a stimulus that makes it a desirable and attractive goal, transforming it from a mere sensory experience into something that commands attention, induces approach, and causes it to be sought out.
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Where does dopamine originate?
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The neurons originating in the ventral tegmental area are dopamine producing neurons.
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What is dopamine related to?
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Dopamine is related to the motivation to obtain something
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What does blocking dopamine do?
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Blocking dopamine doesn’t stop the liking of a reinforcer, it zaps motivation to preform effortful work to obtain it
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Dopamine and Incentive Salience
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The dopamine signal in the nucleus accumbens eventually predicts the reinforcer
It helps us to identify what actions on cues are associated with the wanted outcome |
