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5 days ago · We reconstructed five tracts connecting ventral tegmental area (VTA) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), ventral lateral PFC (vlPFC), medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and nucleus accumbens (NAc) within meso-cortical and meso-limbic pathways using diffusion weighted imaging.
15 hours ago · Neural circuits engaged in ventral hippocampal modulation of dopamine function in medial prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum. Brain Struct Funct. 2008;213:183–95.
1 day ago · Both responses could be reliably induced. By optogenetic and chemogenetic methods, a neural pathway was discovered, with elevated dopamine levels in the ventral tegmental area and the striatum, where distinct subregions encode different kinds of expectations.
1 day ago · Mid-ventral medial prefrontal cortex: Cognitive processes: Coping with empathic distress: Dorsal medial prefrontal cortex/inferior frontal cortex: Emotion regulation: Feeling warmth/tenderness towards others: Periacqueductal gray, substantia nigra, and ventral tegmental area: Phenomenal feeling: Overarching motivation to approach
1 day ago · Studies have shown that addictive memories are retrieved through a distributed network involving multiple brain regions such as the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), ventral tegmental area (VTA ...
2 days ago · The insula is a complex brain region central to the orchestration of taste perception, interoception, emotion, and decision-making. Recent research has shed light on the intricate connections between the insula and other brain regions, revealing the crucial role of this area in integrating sensory, emotional, and cognitive information. The unique anatomical position and extensive connectivity ...
1 day ago · Dopaminergic neurons in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and the ventral tegmental area (VTA) play an important role in the perception of rewarding stimuli, such as the rewards related with substance addiction [13,17]. After cocaine treatments, the extracellular dopamine (DA) contents increased dramatically.
