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	Dopamine shown to induce both desire and dread

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7-12-2008 5:30 PM

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The <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Research')">research</A>ers had previously found that desire and dread functions were anatomically close together in the <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Nucleus')">nucleus</A> accumbens (a tiny section of the <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Brain')">brain</A>--one-fifth of an inch long--associated with desire and reward). In their new <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Research')">research</A>, they found that the effect of <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Dopamine')">dopamine</A> depended on where it was concentrated in the <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Nucleus')">nucleus</A> accumbens. Injections to the front of the <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Nucleus')">nucleus</A> accumbens caused rats to eat three times as much food as normal, but injections to the back caused them to display fearful behavior normally shown in response to a predator.
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It was previously assumed that fear and desire came from different <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Neurotransmitter')">neurotransmitter</A>s, but the new study shows that anatomy alone can determine a single <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Neurotransmitter')">neurotransmitter</A>'s role.
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