[HTML][HTML] Dopaminergic modulation of the reward system in schizophrenia: a placebo-controlled dopamine depletion fMRI study

F da Silva Alves, G Bakker, N Schmitz, N Abeling… - European …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background The brain reward circuitry innervated by dopamine is critically disturbed in
schizophrenia. This study aims to investigate the role of dopamine-related brain activity …

Impaired subjective well-being in schizophrenia is associated with reduced anterior cingulate activity during reward processing

J Gilleen, SS Shergill, S Kapur - Psychological medicine, 2015 - cambridge.org
BackgroundPatients with schizophrenia have substantially reduced subjective well-being
(SW) compared to healthy individuals. It has been suggested that diminished SW may be …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary tyrosine/phenylalanine depletion effects on behavioral and brain signatures of human motivational processing

JM Bjork, SJ Grant, G Chen, DW Hommer - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2014 - nature.com
Dopamine (DA) neurotransmission is critical for motivational processing. We assessed
whether disruption of DA synthesis in healthy controls using an amino-acid beverage devoid …

Choice‐making, expectations, and treatment positivity: How and when choosing shapes aversive experiences

JP Rose, AL Geers, SL Fowler… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Every day we use products and treatments with unknown but expected effects, such as using
medication to manage pain. In many cases, we have a choice over which products or …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of reward processing in adults with 22q11 deletion syndrome

EDA Van Duin, L Goossens, D Hernaus… - Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background 22q11. 2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is caused by a microdeletion
on chromosome 22q11. 2 and associated with an increased risk to develop psychosis. The …

The effects of acute dopamine depletion on resting-state functional connectivity in healthy humans

F Caravaggio, AJ Barnett, S Nakajima, Y Iwata… - European …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Alpha-methyl-para-tyrosine (AMPT), a competitive inhibitor of tyrosine hydroxylase,
can be used to deplete endogenous dopamine in humans. We examined how AMPT …

[HTML][HTML] Attractiveness and neural processing of infant faces: Effects of a facial abnormality but not dopamine

R Huffmeijer, Y Barak-Levy, RCA Rippe - Physiology & Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
Adults' caregiving responses toward infants may have important origins in the perception
and processing of infant cues as well as the motivation to attend to these cues. Moreover …

The effects of methylphenidate on cerebral responses to conflict anticipation and unsigned prediction error in a stop-signal task

P Manza, S Hu, JS Ide, OM Farr… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
To adapt flexibly to a rapidly changing environment, humans must anticipate conflict and
respond to surprising, unexpected events. To this end, the brain estimates upcoming conflict …

Dietary dopamine depletion blunts reward network sensitivity to face trustworthiness

LA Zebrowitz, J Boshyan, N Ward… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Research demonstrating responsiveness of the neural reward network to face
trustworthiness has not assessed whether the effects are mediated by dopaminergic …

The cortical surface area of the insula mediates the effect of DBH rs7040170 on novelty seeking

J Li, Y Cui, K Wu, B Liu, Y Zhang, C Wang, T Jiang - NeuroImage, 2015 - Elsevier
Novelty seeking (NS) is a personality trait important for adaptive functioning, but an
excessive level of NS has been linked to psychiatric disorders such as ADHD and substance …