The paraventricular thalamus is a critical mediator of top-down control of cue-motivated behavior in rats

The paraventricular thalamus is a critical mediator of top-down control of cue-motivated behavior in rats

Cues in the environment can elicit complex emotional states, and thereby maladaptive behavior, as a function of their ascribed value. Here we capture individual variation in the propensity to attribute motivational value to reward-cues using the sign-tracker/goal-tracker animal model. Goal-trackers...

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Main Authors: Paolo Campus, Ignacio R Covelo, Youngsoo Kim, Aram Parsegian, Brittany N Kuhn, Sofia A Lopez, John F Neumaier, Susan M Ferguson, Leah C Solberg Woods, Martin Sarter, Shelly B Flagel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-09-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
incentive salience
prelimbic cortex
paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus
nucleus accumbens
dopamine
sign-tracking
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/49041

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