How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others
New research shows patients with Parkinson's disease were more willing to help others after taking their dopamine-boosting medication.
Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help?
New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social
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A meeting for everyone fascinated by the brain's role in foraging, 3-5 November 2025 at University of Birmingham.
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PhD, mBACP, FHEA
Lecturer|Translational Pain Neuroscience Lab
Pain, Cognitive Bias, Brain and Spinal Cord Neuroimaging
University of Bath
Assistant Professor @ Northwestern
Director of CATS Lab (nucatslab.com)
Psychologist interested in human factors and safety｜Senior research fellow, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
#appliedpsychology #roadsafety
Insight about everybody's favorite subject: Ourselves.
Associate Professor @unibirmingham
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Co-Director @thechbh.bsky.social
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/katja-kornysheva
Final year Physics PhD student at the University of Birmingham building new quantum brain sensors for neuroscientists.
⚛️ Atomic Quantum Systems (https://shorturl.at/qplhe)
🧠 Neuronal Oscillations (neuosc.com)
We develop and deploy neuroimaging and related technologies to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health.
Postdoc in the Motivation and Social Neuroscience lab
@thechbh.bsky.social, University of Birmingham. Research interests: motivation, effort, memory, visual perception, MRI, computational modelling, stroke, aging.
Research Assistant @ CHBH-UoB investigating social information seeking and decision making
BBSRC MIBTP funded PhD student based at the Centre for Human Brain Health, Birmingham, UK
Interested in the neural control of movement 🧠 | she/her
Neuro prof at Princeton, social media cynic.
Neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, trying to understand what mental health and metabolic disorders have in common.
Psychologist and neuroscientist at UCL https://metacoglab.org
Author, Know Thyself (2021) https://metacoglab.org/book
Dad and assistant to the Diplomat
Welcome Trust research fellow at KCL IoPPN, working on computational psychiatry of mood and anxiety
https://thewiselab.org
snr. lecturer/assoc. prof. @ KCL & CAIML
PI @ socrlab.net
founder @ Hypatia
FENS-Kavli scholar
cognition & mental health in biological 🧠 and artificial 🤖 intelligence
Between London 🇬🇧 & Perth/Freo 🇦🇺
Philosopher and neuroscientist | Studying reasoning and foraging | Conceptual and theoretical foundations of cognition | #T1D
a psychology research and teaching guy at McGill
research interest, mild-mannered personal interests
otto.lab.mcgill.ca
Prof @ UCL | I study brains, language, learning and development | I also like cocktails and beaches
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Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Director Institute Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, human brain and mind, attention, predictive processing, action, consciousness, meditation
www.heleenslagter.com
Computational cognitive neuroscientist.
Assistant Professor, Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK.
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