Projection-specific optogenetic and chemogenetic experiments reveal a hippocampal-lateral septal pathway that potentially acts via the ventral tegmental area to regulate social novelty preference ...

Creativity isn’t a bolt of lightning. It’s a series of neural negotiations among brain networks that imagine, evaluate, ...

Researchers found that the drug improves function in reward-related brain regions like the ventral tegmental area (VTA), which is key to motivation ... such as the posterior cingulate cortex. These ...

A third is the ventral tegmental area ... and the rostral anterior cingulate cortex, associated with self-referential thinking. This shift may indicate increased integration of emotional and ...

The anterior part helps mediate reactions of disgust ... our brain but relies on several interwoven networks involving the amygdala, ventral tegmental area, orbitofrontal cortex, and many more which ...

It is classified as hemorrhagic when there is rupture, occurring in the subdural, epidural or subarachnoid spaces, or in an intracranial or ventricular brain area ... anterior cortices in the superior ...

ACC, anterior cingulate cortex; LC, locus coeruleus; VTA, ventral tegmental area; DRN, dorsal raphe nucleus. Moreover, it is intriguing, and apparently contrary to expectation, that G s activation via ...

Clinical evidence suggests that there are correlations between activity within the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC ... in the ACC as well as ventral tegmental area (VTA)-projecting ACC neurons had ...

For example, DA neurons projecting to the medial prefrontal cortex and medial shell of the nucleus accumbens ... just laterally to the midline such as the red nucleus (RPC), ventral tegmental nucleus ...