Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Amount

$750,000.00

Award Date

6/08/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Associative learning is supported by the ability to recognize errors between expected and actual outcomes. Evidence from primate and rat recording studies suggests that dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra and the ventral tegmental area (VTA) signal s