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ReviewNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2015

Differential effects of dopamine-directed treatments on cognition.

F Gregory Ashby, Vivian V Valentin, Stella S von Meer

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Review in Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

F Gregory AshbyDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Vivian V ValentinDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Stella S von MeerDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
University of California, Santa Barbara · US

Funding

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Category LearningR01MH063760 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI ASHBY, F. GREGORY, HELIE, SEBASTIEN · 2002 to 2018
$3.6M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH063760
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dopamine, a prominent neuromodulator, is implicated in many neuropsychiatric disorders. It has wide-ranging effects on both cortical and subcortical brain regions and on many types of cognitive tasks that rely on a variety of different learning and memory systems. As neuroscience and behavioral evidence for the existence of multiple memory systems and their corresponding neural networks accumulated, so did the notion that dopamine's role is markedly different depending on which memory system is engaged. As a result, dopamine-directed treatments will have different effects on different types of cognitive behaviors. To predict what these effects will be, it is critical to understand: which memory system is mediating the behavior; the neural basis of the mediating memory system; the nature of the dopamine projections into that system; and the time course of dopamine after its release into the relevant brain regions. Consideration of these questions leads to different predictions for how changes in brain dopamine levels will affect automatic behaviors and behaviors mediated by declarative, procedural, and perceptual representation memory systems.

Indexed as

cognitiondopaminelearningmemory systems

Identifiers

PMID26251602
PMCPMC4524582
OpenAlexW2152032005

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