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Pioneering research shows that dopamine levels increase in response to stressful stimuli, and not just pleasurable ones, potentially rewriting facts about the “feel-good” hormone—a critical mediator of many psychiatric diseases. This discovery is cause to rethink treatment for psychiatric disease and addiction.

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Research Snapshot: True behavior of the ‘pleasure molecule’ will reshape how we treat psychiatric diseases and addiction

The National Science Foundation has awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Grant to Kathryn L. Humphreys, assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development.

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Vanderbilt’s Humphreys awarded Faculty Early Career Development Grant from the National Science Foundation

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10/6 - Vanderbilt Brain Institute Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society Lecture: "The Role of the Hippocampal-Prefrontal Cortex Circuit in Social Memory, and Its Impairment in Rett Syndrome Mice"

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