Dr. Wolfram Schultz
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- Reward , Scholarpedia, 2(3):1652. (2007)
- Reward signals , Scholarpedia, 2(6):2184. (2007)
Wolfram Schultz is Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at Cambridge University, UK. He graduated in medicine from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and did his postdoctoral training in Germany, the US and Sweden. Wolfram Schultz was a Professor of Neurophysiology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and moved in 2001 to the University of Cambridge, UK.
During his career he has obtained a number of awards, among them the 1984 Ellermann Price of the Swiss Societies for Neurology, Neurosurgery and Neuropathology. In 1997 he was awarded the Theodore-Ott-Price of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (shared). Moreover, he was awarded the Golden Brain Award of the Minerva Foundation, California, US in 2002. In 2005 he was awarded the Ipsen Prize 2005 for Neuronal Plasticity (shared). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a Receiving Editor for the European Journal of Neuroscience (1998-2003), serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurophysiology since 1997 and is an Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) since 2010.
Wolfram Schultz has conducted important studies documenting the reward functions of dopamine neurons and of neurons in other parts of the brain's reward system. His work concerns the processing of reward information and risk in the brain in relation to learning theory and neuroeconomics. His laboratory combines behavioral with neurophysiological and imaging techniques to investigate the neural basis of reward-directed learning and reward-based decision-making under uncertainty. He aims to identify signals for reward value and risk in specific brain structures such as dopamine neurons, striatum, frontal cortex and amygdala.
For more information, visit http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/schultz/.
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