TWiN 40: Dopamine organizes behavior's syllables
This Week in Neuroscience
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The Role of Strategium in Parkinson's Disease
The striatum is part of the base with ganglia. It does a bunch of functional stuff that Tim talks about, but it has a lot of relays for different, for neurons coming from different places. When you lose those dopamine, that is when you get Parkinson's disease. And you lose the ability to move. For example, amphetamine and also cocaine target the dopamine system. Some of them can be addicting.
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