Summary Monkey electrophysiology [1, 2] suggests that the activity of the ventral tegmental
area (VTA) helps regulate reinforcement learning and motivated behavior, in part by …

Reward seeking requires the coordination of motor programs to achieve goals. Midbrain
dopamine neurons are critical for reinforcement, and their activation is sufficient for learning …

The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is important for reward processing and motivation. The
anatomic organization of neurotransmitter-specific inputs to the VTA remains poorly …

Dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) regulate reward association and
motivation. It remains unclear whether there are distinct dopamine populations to mediate …

Ventral tegmental area (VTA) neuron firing precedes behaviors elicited by reward-predictive
sensory cues and scales with the magnitude and unpredictability of received rewards. These …

Abstract The Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) is a midbrain structure known to integrate
aversive and rewarding stimuli, but little is known about the role of VTA glutamatergic …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 124 (3) of
Behavioral Neuroscience (see record 2010-10681-004). There was one error in the text on …

Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) encode reward prediction errors and
can drive reinforcement learning through their projections to striatum, but much less is …

The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is a central element in a system that mediates the
reinforcing properties of natural stimuli (such as food), brain stimulation, and drugs of abuse …

Ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine neurons have important roles in adaptive and
pathological brain functions related to reward and motivation. However, it is unknown …