Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging of Primary Motor Cortex Activity Produced by Ventral Tegmental Area Stimulation
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Voltage-sensitive dye imaging of primary motor cortex activity produced by ventral tegmental area stimulation.
The primary motor cortex (M1) receives dopaminergic projections from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) through the mesocortical dopamine pathway. However, few studies have focused on changes in M1 neuronal activity caused by VTA activation. To address this issue, we used voltage-sensitive dye imaging (VSD) to reveal the spatiotemporal dynamics of M1 activity induced by single-pulse stimulation o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5286-13.2014