The psychedelic, DOI, increases dopamine release in nucleus accumbens to predictable rewards and reward cues
Martin, D. A.; Delgado, A.; Calu, D. J.
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Psychedelics produce lasting therapeutic responses in neuropsychiatric diseases suggesting they may disrupt entrenched associations and catalyze learning. Here, we examine psychedelic effects on dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) core, a region extensively linked to reward learning, motivation, and drug-seeking. We measure phasic dopamine transients following acute psychedelic administration during well learned Pavlovian tasks in which sequential cues predict rewards. We find that the psychedelic 5-HT2A/2C agonist, DOI, increases dopamine signaling to rewards and proximal reward cues but not to the distal cues that predict these events. We determine that the elevated dopamine produced by psychedelics to reward cues occurs independently of psychedelic-induced changes in reward value. The increased dopamine associated with predictable reward cues supports psychedelic-induced increases in prediction error signaling. These findings lay a foundation for developing psychedelic strategies aimed at engaging error-driven learning mechanisms to disrupt entrenched associations or produce new associations.
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