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Convergent Processing of Both Positive and Negative Motivational Signals by the VTA Dopamine Neuronal Populations

Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) have been traditionally studied for their roles in reward-related motivation or drug addiction. Here we study how the VTA dopamine neuron population may process fearful and negative experiences as well as reward information in freely behaving mice...

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Autores principales: Wang, Dong V., Tsien, Joe Z.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3039659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21347237
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017047