You ZB, Chen YQ, Wise RA (2001). "Dopamine and glutamate release in the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area of rat ... and a sex partner cause a release in dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. This shows that the electrical stimulation of the MFB ... which is a collection of dopaminergic neurons that projects from the ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens, is a ... lateral orbitofrontal of MFB shows its projections to nucleus accumbens septi (NAC) and ventral striatum as subcortical reward ...

Local injection of JWH-133 into the nucleus accumbens was found to produce the same effects as systemic administration. ... administration of JWH-133 also reduced basal and cocaine-induced elevations of extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens ...

"Anorexia induced by activation of serotonin 5-HT4 receptors is mediated by increases in CART in the nucleus accumbens". ...

The increase in dopamine release is prominent in drug use, specifically in the ventral striatum and the nucleus accumbens. ...

Filip M, Cunningham KA (April 2002). "Serotonin 5-HT(2C) receptors in nucleus accumbens regulate expression of the ...

... nucleus accumbens, and prefrontal cortex two weeks after the onset of drug abstinence. For her dissertation, titled "Glutamate ... nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex". The European Journal of Neuroscience. 11 (9): 3167-3177. doi:10.1046/j.1460- ...

... and nucleus accumbens. The prefrontal cortex, caudate nucleus, and anterior cingulate cortex are among the most significant ... caudate nucleus, and nucleus accumbens. Long-term aerobic exercise is also associated with persistent beneficial epigenetic ... and nucleus accumbens. Regular exercise has been shown to counter the shrinking of the hippocampus and memory impairment that ... implicated in depression Nucleus accumbens - responsible for incentive salience ("wanting" or desire, the form of motivation ...

... while significantly depleting dopamine content in the nucleus accumbens. Metaphit was the first acylating ligand used to study ...

... attenuates cocaine's behavioural activating effects yet potentiates its dopamine-enhancing action in the nucleus accumbens core ...

... receptor-induced long-term depression in the nucleus accumbens". Journal of Neurochemistry. 125 (6): 809-21. doi:10.1111/jnc. ...

Nucleus Accumbens and the Striatum. In 1990, Moghaddam started her first faculty position at Yale University in the Department ... Nucleus Accumbens, and Striatum of the Rat: An In Vivo Microdialysis Study". Journal of Neurochemistry. 54 (5): 1755-1760. doi: ... "Differential effect of cocaine on extracellular dopamine levels in rat medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens: ... the cocaine administration in rodents induced a higher magnitude increase in extracellular dopamine in the Nucleus Accumbens ...

Furthermore, deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens is an effective treatment of OCD, and symptom improvement ... and response correlates with increased dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. Combined this evidence suggests that OCD may be ... One meta-analysis reported grey matter increases in the bilateral lenticular nuclei, and grey matter decreases in the ACC ( ...

5-HT2C receptors regulate dopamine release in the striatum, prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, hippocampus, hypothalamus, ... efflux and uptake in the rat dorsal raphe nucleus". British Journal of Anaesthesia. 79 (3): 352-6. doi:10.1093/bja/79.3.352. ...

... amygdala and nucleus accumbens, (stimulus salience), nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex (attention), nucleus ... Nucleus accumbens part of the pleasure center, is a collection of neurons and forms the main part of the ventral striatum. It ... Central nucleus of the amygdala serves as the major output nucleus of the amygdala and participates in receiving and processing ... Where it is speculated the Caudate nucleus is unable to properly regulate the transmission of information regarding worrying ...

"Involvement of cAMP-dependent protein kinase in the nucleus accumbens in cocaine self-administration and relapse of cocaine- ...

It induces the release of dopamine in different parts of the brain, such as the nucleus accumbens, amygdala, and hippocampus. ...

When packaging is deemed aesthetic, there is an increase in activation in the nucleus accumbens and the ventromedial prefrontal ... nucleus accumbens and higher-order visual cortices. This may represent an interaction between the perceived attractiveness of ...

... allosteric agonist AMN082 modulates nucleus accumbens GABA and glutamate, but not dopamine, in rats". Neuropharmacology. 54 (3 ...

Johnson, Patricia I.; Parente, Mary Ann; Stellar, James R. (May 1996). "NMDA-induced lesions of the nucleus accumbens or the ...

PKA helps transfer/translate the dopamine signal into cells in the nucleus accumbens, which mediates reward, motivation, and ... The vast majority of reward perception involves neuronal activation in the nucleus accumbens, some examples of which include ... For example, an AKAP located near the nucleus of a heart muscle cell would bind both PKA and phosphodiesterase (hydrolyzes cAMP ... In both types, once the catalytic subunits are freed and active, they can migrate into the nucleus (where they can ...

... allosteric agonist AMN082 modulates nucleus accumbens GABA and glutamate, but not dopamine, in rats". Neuropharmacology. 54 (3 ...

For example, monogamous prairie voles have a high density of oxytocin receptors (OTRs) in the nucleus accumbens, while non- ... "Variation in Oxytocin Receptor Density in the Nucleus Accumbens Has Differential Effects on Affiliative Behaviors in Monogamous ... causes OTRs to appear in ventrolateral regions of the structure called the ventromedial nucleus. This, in turn, increases the ...

... and THP in the nucleus accumbens of AA and ANA rats". Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.). 18 (2-3): 165-169. doi:10.1016/S0741-8329( ...

Preliminary findings indicate that the vlPFC may also modulate activity in the nucleus accumbens, temporal cortex, anterior ... outcomes trigger the mPFC to update stimulus associations through exchanges with the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens. When a ...

The insula magna, or the major island, of these complexes is located in the medial border of the nucleus accumbens. The ventral ... the nucleus accumbens, and the diagonal band. Some of the islands contain a "core" of neuropil, or unmyelinated axons and ... nucleus accumbens, and piriform cortex. The islands also receive information in the form of dopamine from the substantia nigra ... these islands are located within the nucleus accumbens, the reward center of the brain, since the olfactory tubercle has ...

... nucleus accumbens, olfactory tubercle, and medial prefrontal cortex". Brain Research. 520 (1-2): 303-9. doi:10.1016/0006-8993( ... while greatly increasing dopamine in the nucleus accumbens, is ineffective in raising extracellular dopamine in the prefrontal ... markedly and selectively increases extracellular dopamine in the prefrontal cortex as compared to the nucleus accumbens of the ...

... in the medial habenula and interpeduncular nucleus to attenuate dopamine sensitization to morphine in the nucleus accumbens". ... The sites of action in the brain include the medial habenula, interpeduncular nucleus, dorsolateral tegmentum and basolateral ... "Morphine-induced changes in acetylcholine release in the interpeduncular nucleus and relationship to changes in motor behavior ... "18-Methoxycoronaridine acts in the medial habenula and/or interpeduncular nucleus to decrease morphine self-administration in ...

Cardinal R.N.; Howes N.J. (2005). "Effects of lesions of the nucleus accumbens core on choice between small certain rewards and ... Furthermore, rats with lesions to the nucleus accumbens, which is an important part of the dopamine reward pathway through the ... especially left putamen and left caudate nucleus, in the same fashion these areas are activated during the processing of ...

... including both the shell and the core of the nucleus accumbens, were most sensitive to injections of opioids causing ... and ethanol solutions is increased by infusion of a mu opioid agonist into the nucleus accumbens". Psychopharmacology. 159 (4 ... that the consumption of salty and sweet foods was influenced injection of a μ-opioid antagonist into the nucleus accumbens in a ...

Mu-opioid receptor activation in the medial shell of nucleus accumbens promotes alcohol consumption, self-administration and ... Parceling human accumbens into putative core and shell dissociates encoding of values for reward and pain. J Neurosci. 2013 Oct ... Cortico-Accumbens Regulation of Approach-Avoidance Behavior Is Modified by Experience and Chronic Pain. Cell Rep. 2017 05 23; ...