The Handbook of Dopamine

Dr. Stephanie Cragg is a professor of neuroscience at Oxford University. She runs a laboratory on understanding dopamine neurotransmission. Dr. Mark Walton is currently a professor of behavioral neuroscience at Oxford University. His laboratory, the Walton Lab, researches how value is learned and influences decision making within defined brain systems.

1. Introduction A general perspective on dopamine
2. Molecular neuroanatomy of dopamine neurons: Development, diversity and connectivity
3. Dopamine neuron physiology: Ionic mechanisms to action potential generation
4. Dopamine transmission: Release, regulation and receptors
5. Dopamine in postsynaptic integration and plasticity
6. Dopamine function in learning and reinforcement
7. Dopamine signalling in reward-guided behaviour
8. Dopamine function in homeostasis: nutrition, arousal and stress
9. Dopamine dysfunction: from neurology to psychiatry