Reward Pathways and Drugs
The observation that animals would work in order to receive electrical stimulation to discrete brain areas was first described by Olds and Milner (1954). In this paper, they ...
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Ventral Tegmental Area
The ventral tegmental area, (VTA), is a very important brain area in the field of drug abuse. It is one of only two main areas that contain DOPAMINE cell bodies. The MESOLIMBIC ...
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Reward Pathways and Drugs