Riccardo Melani

This study identifies two distinct modes of striatal dopamine release that independently control locomotion and learning.

The paper shows that blue light can falsely trigger dopamine release measurements using RdLight1, questioning previous findings on cholinergic interneurons' role in dopamine release.

This study investigates the role of dopamine in motor vigor, showing that it acts permissively rather than directly specifying movement speed and amplitude.

The paper shows that midbrain dopamine neurons use presynaptic GABA uptake and vesicular transport to achieve inhibitory co-transmission, bypassing the need for de novo GABA synthesis.