Key Brain Circuits for Reward Seeking and Avoidance Behavior Identifiedby Neuroscience News |
Researchers have identified two subpopulations of neurons in the BNST that connect to separate populations of neurons in the lateral hypothalamus which appear to drive two opposing emotional states; avoidance and reward seeking
Researchers mapped new connections in the extended amygdala related to reward-seeking and aversion. Here neurons in that pathway are labeled in fluorescent green in a cross-section of a rodent brain. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Stanford University – de Lecea lab.
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