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How dopamine affects social and motor ability - from the human brain to the honey bee

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Coordinator
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM 

Organization address
address: Edgbaston
city: BIRMINGHAM
postcode: B15 2TT
website: www.bham.ac.uk

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 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Total cost 1˙783˙147 €
 EC max contribution 1˙783˙147 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2017-STG
 Funding Scheme ERC-STG
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-07-01   to  2023-06-30

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM UK (BIRMINGHAM) coordinator 1˙751˙507.00
2    KING'S COLLEGE LONDON UK (LONDON) participant 31˙639.00

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 Project objective

Parkinson’s Disease is usually characterised by motor impairment, and Autism by social difficulties. However, the co-occurrence of social and motor symptoms is critically underappreciated; Parkinson’s Disease patients exhibit social symptoms, and motor difficulties are common in Autism. At present, the biological basis of co-occurring social and motor impairment is unclear. Notably, both Autism and Parkinson’s Disease have been associated with dopamine (DA) system dysfunction and, in non-clinical populations, DA has been linked with social and motor ability. These disparate strands of research have never been combined.

Brain2Bee will use psychopharmacology in typical individuals to develop a model of the relationship between DA, Motor, and Social behaviour – the DAMS model. Brain2Bee will use sophisticated genetic analysis to refine DAMS, elucidating the contributions of DA-related biological processes (e.g. synthesis, receptor expression, reuptake). Brain2Bee will then test DAMS’ predictions in patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Autism. Finally, Brain2Bee will investigate whether DAMS generalises to an animal model, the honey bee, enabling future research to unpack the cascade of biological events linking DA-related genes with social and motor behaviour.

Brain2Bee will unite disparate research fields and establish the DAMS model. The causal structure of DAMS will identify the impact of dopaminergic variation on social and motor function in clinical and non-clinical populations, elucidating, for example, whether social difficulties in Parkinson’s Disease are a product of the motor difficulties caused by DA dysfunction. DAMS’ biological specificity will provide unique insight into the DA-related processes linking social and motor difficulties in Autism. Thus, Brain2Bee will determine the type of dopaminergic drugs (e.g. receptor blockers, reuptake inhibitors) most likely to improve both social and motor function.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2019 Bianca Schuster, Sophie Sowden, Diar Abdlkarim, Alan Wing, Jennifer Cook
Acting is not the same as feeling: Emotion expression in gait is different for posed and induced emotions
published pages: , ISSN: 1662-5161, DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2019.229.00010
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 13 2020-03-05
2019 Sophie Sowden, Bianca Schuster, Jennifer Cook
The role of movement kinematics in facial emotion expression
published pages: , ISSN: 1662-5161, DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2019.229.00018
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 13 2020-03-05
2019 Jennifer L Cook, Jennifer C Swart, Monja I Froböse, Andreea O Diaconescu, Dirk EM Geurts, Hanneke EM den Ouden, Roshan Cools
Catecholaminergic modulation of meta-learning
published pages: e51439, ISSN: 2050-084X, DOI: 10.7554/elife.51439
eLife 8 2020-03-05

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