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is anorexia nervosa an eating disorder? - Maudsley Parents

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Brain Dopamine (DA)<br />

Optimal Response to Stimuli<br />

Schultz 1997;Horvitz 2000; Berridge 1996; Kelly 2004<br />

• DA mediates learning <strong>an</strong>d reinforcement<br />

mech<strong>an</strong><strong>is</strong>ms associated with positive rewards<br />

(food in hungry <strong>an</strong>imal)<br />

• Role not selective for food but rather for<br />

signaling salience of a variety of potential<br />

rewards, or cues that predict rewards<br />

• DA encodes motivation <strong>an</strong>d appropriate<br />

choices (goal directed)

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