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 ...

Results Hierarchical clustering dendrograms show an aLIC organisation clustering lateral and dissociating ventral and dorsal prefrontal–thalamic ... of white-matter fascicles embedded within the ...

Frontostriatal circuits in the brain change and reconfigure themselves between the ages of 11 and 25, modulating impulses and ...

Previous studies have suggested that nicotine addiction is associated with regions such as the insula, globus pallidus, amygdala, and ventral striatum. However, our prior retrospective study indicates ...

Previous research discovered the dopamine neurons needed for learning reside in three areas of the midbrain: the ventral tegmental ... project to all areas of the striatum apart from one, called ...

Spiny projection neurons (SPNs) in dorsal striatum are often proposed as a locus of reinforcement learning in the basal ganglia. Here, we identify and resolve a fundamental inconsistency between ...