The study revealed that these two types of brain cells create parallel highways that lead to different neighborhoods in the ventral striatum. The first pathway (Drd1+ neurons) primarily connects to an ...

A study reveals a brain circuit between the interpeduncular nucleus and the laterodorsal tegmentum that drives nicotine ...

Facebook 'likes' can reveal your personal traits; Facebook posts are more memorable than faces; Facebook's roots go way, way back In addition to Meshi, the authors of "Nucleus Accumbens Response ...

Brain and behavior. Certain health conditions, including bulimia and obesity, have already been linked to high nucleus accumbens activity in response to food-related cues.Kelley and his colleagues ...

These findings implicate the Reelin signaling pathway as a potential therapeutic target for cocaine use disorder. Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion — 10 to 20 percent — of the neurons ...

News on nucleus accumbens. Date. 6 hours 12 hours 1 day 3 days all. Rank. Last day 1 week 1 month all. ... The human brain contains billions of neurons that continuously receive information and ...

At the same time, reward-related areas such as the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, a part of the brain that drives motivation and reward-seeking, become more reactive to tempting food cues. In ...

Reward-seeking and threat avoidance are critical for survival. Pursuing enjoyable things triggers the release of dopamine in the brain, making people feel pleasure. On the contrary, people ...

The nucleus accumbens (NAc), a key dopaminergic terminal region of the limbic system, is a neurosurgical target for antidepressant modulation. 21, 22 In our earlier work, NAc deep-brain ...