This Week in Neuroscience

TWiN 21: How do we know if a mouse is hallucinating?


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TWiN explores a study of hallucination-like perception in mice which supports the idea that hallucinations arise as faulty perceptual inferences due to elevated dopamine in the striatum.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Ori Lieberman, and Timothy Cheung

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