The objective of this class, Introduction to Neuroscience: BIO 159, is to familiarize students with common methodologies and techniques that are used in the field of Neuroscience. In small groups that were divided upon specific topics of interest, students were prompted to explore popular news articles that communicate neuroscience research to a public audience. In […]
B14-T: Contributions of the Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway in Reversal Learning
Cognitive flexibility, which can be measured with reversal learning, is the ability of an individual to alter their behavior in response to changing environmental conditions. Past studies have found that dopamine (DA) is released in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) during reversal learning (Radke et al., 2019, Klanker et al., 2017). The present study sought to […]