Neuromodulation

A topic within Systems Neuroscience, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.

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Paper2005

An Integrative Theory of Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine Function: Adaptive Gain and Optimal Performance

Aston-Jones & Cohen

Proposes that the locus coeruleus norepinephrine system switches the brain between exploitative and exploratory behavioural modes by adjusting neural gain.

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Paper2012

Neuromodulation of Neural Circuits: Back to the Future

Eve Marder

Argues that the same neural circuit can be reconfigured into different functional states by neuromodulators, so anatomy alone cannot predict what a circuit currently does.

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An Integrative Theory of Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine Function: Adaptive Gain and Optimal Performance

Neuromodulation of Neural Circuits: Back to the Future

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