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A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It produces dopamine, a neuromodulator that helps predict future rewards based ...

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The dopamine (DA) neurons found in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are widely involved in the addiction and natural reward circuitry of the brain. Their firing patterns were shown to be important ...

The mesolimbic dopamine system, particularly projections from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) to the nucleus accumbens (NAc), plays a critical role in food reward processing.

While neural circuits involved in food-seeking behavior and satiety are known, Zhenggang Zhu, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSD, and colleagues investigated how the ventral tegmental area ...

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 ...