Dopamine neurons do not constitute an obligatory stage in the final common path for the evaluation and pursuit of brain stimulation reward

• Ivan Trujillo-Pisanty,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

  Affiliation Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

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• Kent Conover,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

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• Pavel Solis,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

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• Daniel Palacios,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

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• Peter Shizgal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peter.shizgal@concordia.ca

  Affiliation Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4265-0792

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