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Dopamine neurons drive basal forebrain reward prediction in milliseconds
You-Jhe Jhong, Ming-Ching Chiang, Adriane Guillaumin…·Shih‐Chieh Lin
The paper shows that dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area causally drive basal forebrain bursting neurons to propagate reward prediction signals on a millisecond timescale.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.01.755874