title: Going for broke: dopamine influences risky choice.
abstract: Dopamine neurons track reward by increasing or decreasing their firing rate when a reward is present or absent. In this issue of Neuron, Stopper et al. (2014) demonstrate that artificially eliminating these dopamine bursts or dips can alter risky decision-making.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
authors.forename: Travis M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Moschak
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: rcarelli@unc.edu.
authors.forename: Regina M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Carelli
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D012201:Reward; D012309:Risk-Taking; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D004298:Dopamine