A role for the medial preoptic area in mediating a response to cocaine

The salience of natural or drug-associated reward is mediated by phasic dopamine (DA) release in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) arising from DAergic cells in the ventral tegmental area (VTA). Circulating sex steroid hormones can modulate reward associated with drugs of abuse; yet, it still remains uncl...

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Main Author: Tobiansky, Daniel Jonathan
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28054