PMID: 16613556Apr 15, 2006Paper

Phasic dopamine signaling during behavior, reward, and disease states

CNS & Neurological Disorders Drug Targets
M L A V Heien, R M Wightman

Abstract

The neurotransmitter dopamine is important in reward processing, however its precise modulatory role is still being investigated. Carbon-fiber microelectrodes can be used to monitor dopamine on a subsecond time scale in the striatum and nucleus accumbens of rats during behavior, and this approach is providing new insights into the mechanisms that control its extracellular concentration as well as the conditions under which it is released. Three main processes govern the amount of dopamine measured extrasynaptically: exocytotic release, neuronal uptake, and diffusion away from the release site. By monitoring local extracellular dopamine concentrations in the striatum following electrical stimulation of dopamine-containing neurons, release, uptake and diffusion can be individually examined and quantified. Dopaminergic neurons have been shown to fire in two firing modes, tonic and bursts at higher frequency. Electrical stimulation can be designed to mimic either mode to examine their effects on dopamine release. Burst firing causes a transient increase in extracellular dopamine while tonic firing causes a new steady-state level. In behaving primates, dopaminergic neurons display short-latency, phasic firing to primary reward and c...Continue Reading

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