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TWiN 21: How do we know if a mouse is hallucinating?

  • August 24, 2021
  • Tagged as: hallucination, mouse model, neurobiology, neurology, neuroscience, psychotic disorder, schizophrenia, striata dopamine, striatum

TWiN explores a study of hallucination-like perception in mice which supports the idea that hallucinations arise as faulty perceptual inferences due to elevated dopamine in the striatum.

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