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The ventral tegmental area (VTA) plays a key role in motivation and the brain's reward circuit. The main source of dopamine, this small cluster of neurons sends this neuromodulator to other brain ...

These findings highlight the significance of rearing behavior and behavioral lateralization as potential behavioral markers ...

Chinese scientists have discovered subtle new earlier signs of Parkinson’s in mice, an advance that may help diagnose the ...

AgRP neurons do not have strong direct connections to the cortex. But they do project to other brain regions that connect to the prefrontal cortex. Horvath and his colleagues found that the neurons in ...

In male mice, neuronal projections from the ventral tegmental area go to the brain’s nucleus accumbens to mediate female socio-sexual preference, but to the medial preoptic area to mediate male ...

Nostalgia-related activity mainly happens in the hippocampus, ventral striatum, and substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area. Scientists believe these systems work together to generate nostalgia ...