title: Noradrenaline and dopamine: sharing the Workload.
abstract: Varazzani and colleagues explored how noradrenergic and dopaminergic neural activity relates to cost/benefit decisions involving effort. They show these systems may play complementary roles in resolving these decisions; dopamine encodes cost-discounted values of rewards, whereas noradrenergic cells modify activity in relation to the amount of effort required to obtain them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, CANADA. Electronic address: floresco@psych.ubc.ca.
authors.forename: Stan B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Floresco
mesh_terms: D059331:Adrenergic Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D003657:Decision Making; D059290:Dopaminergic Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D012201:Reward