Proof that scientists have been wrong about dopamine for 50+ years

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That’s right — they were completely off the mark.

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Proof that scientists have been wrong about dopamine for 50+ years

Wow. Sometimes science gets it very wrong.

That’s the case with the neurotransmitter dopamine, which turns out to be far more complex than was previously thought.

This doesn’t particularly surprise me, parts of body systems rarely do just one thing and dopamine is no exception.

Popular understanding of dopamine says that it’s the pleasure molecule and is highly involved in addiction of all kinds.

“In the press, dopamine is often referred to as a ‘pleasure molecule’ or a ‘reward molecule,'” said Calipari, who also is a faculty member of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute and the Center for Addiction Research.

The reality is that dopamine is much more complex than something that just causes pleasure or reward. 

“In the scientific community, research has helped us understand that dopamine’s role in learning and memory is more complex than that, but we did not have a complete and accurate theory that could explain what dopamine actually does in the brain.”

Scientists have been learning that dopamine’s role involves encoding information into the brain.

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In research from Vanderbilt University, scientists are discovering that dopamine isn’t actually a reward molecule…

It’s actually designed to encode information so we can survive better.

The encoding includes both positive and negative information.

Not just reward-driven information as previously thought.

“We then go on to show that dopamine is not a reward molecule at all. It instead helps encode information about all types of important and relevant events and drive adaptive behavior — regardless of whether it is positive or negative.”

This is extremely interesting information and it could be something that causes the medical community to completely rethink many treatments for psychiatric disorders and addiction.

To find out how dopamine really works, researchers used advanced technology to track the release of dopamine in the brain.

The researchers collaborated with Lin Tian, professor and vice chair of biochemistry and molecular medicine at UC Davis, to use cutting-edge technology to study an unprecedented diversity of neurobehavioral processes related to dopamine release.

Theories about dopamine drive treatment for addiction and many psychiatric disorders like anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. It’s also dysregulated in Parkinson’s disease.

With a better understanding of how dopamine actually works to encode learning into the brain, researchers may be able to develop better treatment plans. 

This work clearly demonstrates a much more sophisticated role for this neurotransmitter, and it means we need to rethink models of addiction that depend on the dopamine/‘chemical’ reward mentality,” said Danny Winder, director of the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research.

Current treatment strategies for addiction often target dopamine.

Many therapeutic approaches that aim to treat addiction target dopamine. However, altering dopamine without having a full understanding of what dopamine actually does may lead to many unforeseen side effects, and more importantly, failed treatment strategies.

But these treatments don’t always work very well, and now we are starting to get a better picture of why that happens.

Ultimately, our bodies are complex machines and we are just starting to understand how our brains really work. 

With new developments happening all the time it will be interesting to see what the research turns up next.

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Matt Cook is editor-in-chief of Daily Medical Discoveries. Matt has been a full time health researcher for 26 years. ABC News interviewed Matt on sexual health issues not long ago. Matt is widely quoted on over 1,000,000 websites. He has over 300,000 daily newsletter readers. Daily Medical Discoveries finds hidden, buried or ignored medical studies through the lens of 100 years of proven science. Matt heads up the editorial team of scientists and health researchers. Each discovery is based upon primary studies from peer reviewed science sources following the Daily Medical Discoveries 7 Step Process to ensure accuracy.