The central amygdala recruits mesocorticolimbic circuitry for pursuit of reward or pain

Brain disorders can create maladaptive attractions, such as in addiction or self-harming. Here the authors use multiple valence modes of the central amygdala to create such attractions, arbitrarily making rats into ‘sucrose addicts' or ‘cocaine addicts', or causing maladaptive attraction t...

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Main Authors: Shelley M. Warlow, Erin E. Naffziger, Kent C. Berridge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16407-1

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