Dissociable mesolimbic dopamine circuits control responding triggered by alcohol-predictive discrete cues and contexts

Alcohol craving can be enhanced by alcohol-associated cues and by alcohol-associated contexts. Here the authors investigate the role of the ventral tegmental area (VTA)-to-nucleus accumbens (NAc) core and VTA-to-NAc shell circuits in mediating these distinct aspects of alcohol seeking behaviour in r...

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Main Authors: Milan D. Valyear, Iulia Glovaci, Audrey Zaari, Soraya Lahlou, Ivan Trujillo-Pisanty, C. Andrew Chapman, Nadia Chaudhri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17543-4