The role of dopamine, reward learning and prefrontal activity in expectation-induced mood enhancement
(A07)
Subject Area
Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
Term
from 2020 to 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 422744262
A07 will elucidate the neural, neurochemical, and neurocomputational pathways underlying expectation effects on negative mood and anhedonia. Using EEG in combination with a pharmacological challenge to the dopaminergic system and computational modeling of reward learning, this project will investigate how dopamine-related reward processing contributes to expectation effects on negative affect and depression-like symptoms. Results will contribute to the understanding of prefrontal and orbitofrontal activity for the generation of expectation effects in the field of mood, depressive symptoms, and pain.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
