... 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; ...
NPY neurons have been shown to interact with dopaminergic reward and emotion pathways in the nucleus accumbens and amygdala, ... Pomonis JD, Levine AS, Billington CJ (July 1997). "Interaction of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and central nucleus ... specifically in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) and dentate gyrus. The arcuate nucleus has been found to have one of the highest ... Minor RK, Chang JW, de Cabo R (February 2009). "Hungry for life: How the arcuate nucleus and neuropeptide Y may play a critical ...
... rapidly increases both dopamine and serotonin levels in nucleus accumbens of awake rats". British Journal of Pharmacology. 164 ...
Overexpression of ΔFosB in the nucleus accumbens is necessary and sufficient for many of the neural adaptations seen in drug ... These studies suggest that glutamatergic modulation of dopaminergic tone in the nucleus accumbens may be a mechanism common to ... N-acetyl cysteine, an amino acid that restores extracellular glutamate concentration in the nucleus accumbens, reduced gambling ... but not the medial preoptic nucleus. Next, the induction of c-Fos, a downstream (repressed) target of DeltaFosB, was measured ...
Transgenic mice exhibiting inducible expression of ΔFosB primarily in the nucleus accumbens and dorsal striatum exhibit ... Cocaine addiction occurs through ΔFosB overexpression in the nucleus accumbens, which results in altered transcriptional ... which in turn increases the number of dendritic branches and spines present on neurons involved with the nucleus accumbens and ... regulation in neurons within the nucleus accumbens. ΔFosB levels have been found to increase upon the use of cocaine. Each ...
... as do lesions in selective portions of the nucleus accumbens. With human subjects, there is evidence that acute, non-medicated ...
... septal nuclei and nucleus accumbens. "psychological stressor induced an increase in both CRH mRNA levels and CRH content in the ... Among these nuclei are the basolateral complex, the cortical nucleus, the medial nucleus, and the central nucleus. The ... The central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA or aCeN) is a nucleus within the amygdala. It "serves as the major output nucleus of ... Kalin NH, Shelton SE, Davidson RJ (June 2004). "The role of the central nucleus of the amygdala in mediating fear and anxiety ...
By combining genetic analysis with optogenetic, Lobo has identified divergent roles in nucleus accumbens projection neurons in ...
2004). "Acupuncture attenuates repeated nicotine-induced behavioral sensitization and c-Fos expression in the nucleus accumbens ... particularly the nucleus accumbens) in a rat model of nicotine sensitisation. Those changes in the basal ganglia also improve ...
The areas of the brain that communicate with one another are the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, nucleus accumbens, ...
... bringing input from the nucleus accumbens and mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus), the lateral hypothalamus, the medial ... Input regions include septal nuclei (the nucleus fimbrialis septi and the nucleus triangularis septi), dopaminergic inputs from ... Habenula nuclear divisions: lateral habenular nucleus (hier-278 at NeuroNames) medial habenular nucleus (hier-279 at NeuroNames ... nucleus accumbens, internal globus pallidus, ventral pallidum, and diagonal band of Broca. As a whole, this complexly ...
... projections to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) have been identified. Acute exposure to alcohol stimulates dopamine release into the ... which connects the ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens (NAcc). One of alcohol's primary effects is the allosteric ... its overexpression in the nucleus accumbens produces and then directly modulates compulsive alcohol consumption). Parkinson's ... has shown that the major part of the brain that reinforces addiction through neurochemical reward is the nucleus accumbens. The ...
An associative input goes to the caudate nucleus and possibly to the nucleus accumbens. There are two different components of ... The dorsal striatum contains the caudate nucleus and the putamen, and the ventral striatum contains the nucleus accumbens and ... Brauer, K; Haüsser, M.; Härtig, W.; Arendt, T. (2000). "The shell-core dichotomy of nucleus accumbens in the rhesus monkey as ... They turn round the medial border of the subthalamic nucleus, enter the H2 field above the subthalamic nucleus, then cross the ...
Subtype 1 shows widespread low grey matter volumes, particularly in the thalamus, nucleus accumbens, medial temporal, medial ... amygdala and nucleus accumbens. Together, this indicates that extensive changes do occur in the brains of people with ... Volumetric increases were found in the lateral ventricles (+18%), caudate nucleus and pallidum, and extensive decreases in the ... and left mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus. Increased activation was observed in the left ACC and left inferior parietal lobe ...
"Activation of PKCzeta and PKMzeta in the nucleus accumbens core is necessary for the retrieval, consolidation and ...
... the nucleus accumbens core, is involved in the consolidation, retrieval and reconsolidation of drug memory. The caudate nucleus ... Retinal sensors send signals through the optic tract to the Lateral geniculate nucleus. Once the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus ... "Activation of PKCzeta and PKMzeta in the nucleus accumbens core is necessary for the retrieval, consolidation and ... which consists of the putamen and the caudate nucleus. The basic functions of these nuclei deal with cognition, learning, and ...
"Anticipation of Increasing Monetary Reward Selectively Recruits Nucleus Accumbens", was published in Journal of Neuroscience in ...
The protein also seems to be involved, through the nucleus accumbens, in the consolidation and reconsolidation of the memory ... "Activation of PKCzeta and PKMzeta in the nucleus accumbens core is necessary for the retrieval, consolidation and ...
... which is posited to be associated with escalating dopamine transmission in the nucleus accumbens. Dopamine transporter ...
Anteroposterior Differences within the Ventral Tegmental Area and Lack of Effect in Nucleus Accumbens". Journal of Neuroscience ...
... activation of the nucleus accumbens then doesn't necessarily cause the mental process of tasting food, since activation could ... the mental processes of experiencing visual art and experiencing the taste of food both activate the nucleus accumbens; ...
... septal nuclei and nucleus accumbens. Both the amygdalofugal pathway and the stria terminalis project to the septal region, the ... lateral nucleus, and the basomedial nucleus. The basolateral nucleus cooperates with the central nucleus in persistent fear ... the basolateral nucleus is more like the cerebral cortex than is the central nucleus. The basolateral nucleus differs from the ... The nucleus accumbens, along with other regions of the ventral striatum and the prefrontal cortex, is one of the major targets ...
... opioid receptors in the ventral tegmental area and thereby stimulate cells that release dopamine in the nucleus accumbens (NAc ...
The nucleus accumbens is made up of the nucleus accumbens core and the nucleus accumbens shell, which differ by neural ... The striatum is made up of the caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus. The lentiform nucleus is made up of the larger ... ΔFosB is an inducible gene which is increasingly expressed in the nucleus accumbens as a result of repeatedly using an ... The ventral striatum consists of the nucleus accumbens and the olfactory tubercle. The dorsal striatum consists of the caudate ...
... nucleus accumbens, olfactory tubercle, and medial prefrontal cortex". Brain Research. 520 (1-2): 303-9. doi:10.1016/0006-8993( ...
... and nucleus accumbens (NAc). Studies have demonstrated that VTA and NAc synapses are capable of undergoing LTP and that this ... Ouardouz M, Sastry BR (2000). "Mechanisms underlying LTP of inhibitory synaptic transmission in the deep cerebellar nuclei". ... induction of LTP in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala by stimulation of the medial geniculate body". The Journal of ... that initiates gene expression in the cell nucleus. At the same synapse (but not the unstimulated synapse), local protein ...