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Aug 11, 2024

Direct serotonin release in humans shapes aversive learning and inhibition

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Increasing serotonin can change how people learn from negative information, as well as improving how they respond to it, according to a new study published in the leading journal Nature Communications.

The study by scientists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry and the National…


Serotonin is involved in aversive processing, but how serotonin shapes behavior remains unclear. Here, the authors show that directly enhancing synaptic serotonin in humans reduces outcome sensitivity and increases behavioral inhibition in aversive contexts.

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