Dopamine: Conditioned Inhibition and Motivation
Why do certain experiences have value for some and not for others? What would make a person stop being interested in activities that others believe are important? Lack of motivation on your unit might be user error with youth’s dopaminergic systems. This video can help increase staff’s capacity to effectively motivate youth.
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References and suggested reading:
Peer Reviewed Scholarly Publications
Ellis, B. J., Del Giudice, M., Dishion, T. J., Figueredo, A. J., Gray, P., Griskevicius, V., Hawley, P. H., Jacobs, W. J., James, J., Volk, A. A., & Wilson, D. S. (2012). The evolutionary basis of risky adolescent behavior: implications for science, policy, and practice. Developmental Psychology, 48(3), 598–623. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026220
Kishida, K. T., Saez, I., Lohrenz, T., Witcher, M. R., Laxton, A. W., Tatter, S. B., White, J. P., Ellis, T. L., Phillips, P. E. M., & Read Montague, P. (2016). Subsecond dopamine fluctuations in human striatum encode superposed error signals about actual and counterfactual reward. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(1), 200–205. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513619112
Schultz, W. (2016a). Dopamine reward prediction error coding. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 18(1), 23–32. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2016.18.1/wschultz
Schultz, W. (2016b). Dopamine reward prediction-error signalling: a two-component response. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17(3), 183–195. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2015.26
Tobler, P. N., Dickinson, A., & Schultz, W. (2003). Coding of predicted reward omission by dopamine neurons in a conditioned inhibition paradigm. The Journal of Neuroscience, 23(32), 10402–10410. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.23-32-10402.2003
Podcasts and Interviews
Dopamine, Learning, and Behavior with Philippe Tobler
Dopamine and Decision Making with Wolfram Schultz
Media credit (photo/video/audio/animation) Sincere thanks to the following artists
Thumbnail Image - Person entering Maze – RichardjJones, Storyblocks
Person hitting the snooze alarm – Pro Studio, Storyblocks
Person entering Maze – RichardjJones, Storyblocks
Stoplight – istock.com/ luza studios
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