Fiber photometry analysis for spontaneous dopamine signals: The z-scored data are not the data
Conner W. Wallace, Emily K. DiMarco, Clare Y Slinkard, Rachael Shaughnessy, Katherine M. Holleran, Samuel W. Centanni, Christopher C. Lapish, Sara R. Jones
The paper compares three methods for analyzing spontaneous dopamine signals and finds that z-scoring is unreliable, while manual and prominence methods are more accurate.
ACS Chemical Neuroscience · Aug 13, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience