Median raphe serotonergic neurons projecting to the interpeduncular nucleus control preference and aversion

Appropriate processing of value information is essential for survival. Here the authors show that in mice, serotonergic activations originating from the median raphe nucleus facilitated aversion in a pathway-dependent manner, while silencing this pathway was rewarding.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hiroyuki Kawai, Youcef Bouchekioua, Naoya Nishitani, Kazuhei Niitani, Shoma Izumi, Hinako Morishita, Chihiro Andoh, Yuma Nagai, Masashi Koda, Masako Hagiwara, Koji Toda, Hisashi Shirakawa, Kazuki Nagayasu, Yu Ohmura, Makoto Kondo, Katsuyuki Kaneda, Mitsuhiro Yoshioka, Shuji Kaneko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35346-7