Stephan Lammel1, Byung Kook Lim, Chen Ran

  • 1Nancy Pritzker Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 265 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

Nature
|October 16, 2012
PubMed
まとめ

特徴的な腹部トゲメンタル領域 (VTA) の回路は,報酬と嫌悪を生成する. ラテロドルサル・テグメンタムとラテラル・ハベンチュラからのインプットは,VTAのドーパミンニューロンを差異的に調節し,動機付けられた行動に影響を与えます.

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