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The brain is a very complex and very busy place. To narrow our inquiry about the connection between dopamine and attention it would be helpful to know just where D4Rs are located and how their location relates to attention. D4Rs are broadly distributed throughout the brain, rather than being highly localized in only one or two brain regions. Studies from the lab of Dr. Patricia Goldman-Rakic at Yale University showed that in the primate cortex D4Rs are particularly enriched in certain specific types of inhibitory interneurons (1), providing an important clue about where to look for the molecular events of human attention.
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Deth, R.C. (2003). Interneurons, D4 Receptors and Attention. In: Molecular Origins of Human Attention. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0335-4_6
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