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Distinct extended amygdala circuits for divergent motivational states.
Nature - 11 Apr 2013
Jennings Joshua H, Sparta Dennis R, Stamatakis Alice M, Ung Randall L, Pleil Kristen E, Kash Thomas L, Stuber Garret D
Abstract excerpt
The co-morbidity of anxiety and dysfunctional reward processing in illnesses such as addiction and depression suggests that common neural circuitry contributes to these disparate neuropsychiatric symptoms. The extended amygdala, including the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), modulates fear and anxiety, but also projects to the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a region implicated in reward and aversion,...
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