Encyclopedia: Nucleus Accumbens
The nucleus accumbens , also known as the accumbens nucleus or as the nucleus accumbens septi , is a collection of neurons within the forebrain. It is thought to play an important role in reward, laughter, pleasure, addiction and fear. Each half of the brain has one nucleus accumbens. It is located where the head of the caudate and the anterior portion of the putamen meet just lateral to the...
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Retrograde Projections from Nucleus Accumbens?
After injecting a retrograde tracer into the nucleus accumbens core, what areas of the rat...
After injecting a retrograde tracer into the nucleus accumbens core, what areas of the rat...
There are many areas that innervate the n. accumbens, but probably the major area that you will see, especially if you are using rat, will be the ventral tegmental area...
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