Not all animals respond to reward cues the same way — some fixate on the cue itself, while others head straight for the reward.

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 ...

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 ...

Sleep disorders and sleep deprivation demonstrated brain convergences on the right side, suggesting an association with brain asymmetry.

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

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 ...

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 ...