Podcast: What our brains want - with Ray Dolan, Wolfram Schultz and Peter Dayan

This month, Ray Dolan, Wolfram Schultz and Peter Dayan, winners of the 2017 Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize, discuss their ground-breaking work on how the brain recognises and processes reward with Claudia Hammond.

Listen time: 1:15:11
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Our sense of reward motivates us and is essential for survival, so when the system malfunctions, it can lead to big problems.

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Brain

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