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Ventral tegmental area acetylcholine generates appetitive and aversive incentive motivation

2026-07-11

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Ventral tegmental area neurons participate in reward learning, motivation, and movement but also have an emerging role in the regulation of aversive behaviors. While these diverse contributions have been attributed to distinct projections of ventral tegmental area neurons, it remains unresolved how these neurons inherit their array of behavioral functions. The ventral tegmental area is rich with acetylcholine rece...

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Literature Corpus work: 49c44456-b78c-5378-8cf8-63271ea659f9
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.09.737546

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