Independent neural coding of reward and movement by pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus neurons in freely navigating rats
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Independent neural coding of reward and movement by pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus neurons in freely navigating rats.
Phasic firing of dopamine (DA) neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra (SN) is likely to be crucial for reward processing that guides learning. One of the key structures implicated in the regulation of this DA burst firing is the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg), which projects to both the VTA and SN. Different literatures suggest that the PPTg serves as a sens...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0953-816X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07649.x