… These findings extend our knowledge of cortico-striatal circuits mediating flexible reward-seeking,
identifying prefrontal input to the medial NAc as a critical component of such a network…

… reward association and motivation. It remains unclear whether there are distinct
dopamine populations to mediate … Selective elimination of dopamine synthesis in Crhr1-expressing …

… Reinforcement learning and goal-seeking behavior are thought to be mediated by
midbrain dopamine neurons. However, little is known about neural substrates of curiosity and …

… treatment suppresses excitability and synaptic transmission onto VTA dopamine neurons. …
Together, CORT-induced neuronal disruptions in a key region mediating reward-seeking …

… or D2 Neurons Increases Unproductive Reward Seeking We … neuron activity would interfere
with behavioral suppression, … neurons appears to be critical for NAc-mediated suppression …

… Surprisingly, while previous studies on blunted reward-seeking focused on dopamine (DA) …
DA, neurons mediate stress-induced blunted reward-seeking. Inhibiting VTA GABA neurons …

… were used to test the effect of photostimulation of dopamine neurons in the VTA on latent
inhibition in an appetitive procedure using food rewards (Extended Data Fig. 10). These rats …

… From these studies, it appears that activation of this pathway can lead to reinforcement
learning mediated through the excitation of dopaminergic neurons by serotonergic neurons co-…

… Stress affects dopamine levels and dopaminergic neuronal … the postsynaptic modulation
mediating reward-directed and … compared to the suppression of VTA DA neuronal activity after …

… mediating these behavioral outcomes, we utilized in vivo fiber photometry in ventral tegmental
area (VTA) dopamine neurons … suppressed food (sucrose) cue-evoked dopamine neuron …