Human Learning Altered by Electrical Stimulation of Dopamine Neurons
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaStimulation of a certain population of neurons within the brain can alter the learning process, according to a team of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons at the University of Pennsylvania. A report in the Journal of Neuroscience describes for the first time that human learning can be modified by stimulation of dopamine-containing neurons in a deep brain structure known as the substantia nigra.