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The ventral tegmental area (VTA) (tegmentum is Latin for covering), also known as the ventral tegmental area of Tsai, or simply ventral tegmentum, is a group of neurons located close to the midline on the floor of the midbrain.
Jan 5, 2017 · Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are highly heterogeneous and project to a range of different brain regions. Morales and Margolis summarize recent...
- Marisela Morales, Elyssa B. Margolis
- 2017
May 20, 2022 · The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is well known for regulating reward consumption, learning, memory, and addiction behaviors through mediating dopamine (DA) release in downstream regions. Other than DA neurons, the VTA is known to be heterogeneous and contains other types of neurons, including glutamate neurons.
- Jing Cai, Qingchun Tong
- Front Neural Circuits. 2022; 16: 867053.
- 10.3389/fncir.2022.867053
- 2022
Oct 14, 2012 · Nature - Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are perhaps best known for their reward-related activity, but they can also signal aversion. Here, the authors show that...
- Stephan Lammel, Byung Kook Lim, Chen Ran, Kee Wui Huang, Michael J. Betley, Kay M. Tye, Karl Deisser...
- 2012
The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is a midbrain region that regulates diverse behaviors through dopamine (DA) and glutamate signaling. This review summarizes the features and functions of VTA glutamate neurons, their connections with other VTA neurons and brain regions, and their roles in reward, aversion, stress, and addiction.
Jun 15, 2020 · The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is important for reward processing and motivation. The anatomic organization of neurotransmitter-specific inputs to the VTA remains poorly resolved. In the...
Nov 10, 2015 · The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is involved in adaptive reward and motivation processing and is composed of dopamine (DA) and GABA neurons. Defining the elements regulating activity and synaptic plasticity of these cells is critical to understanding mechanisms of reward and addiction.
