Ventral striatum
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| Latin | Striatum ventrale, corpus striatum ventrale |
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The ventral striatum is a portion of the striatum.
It consists of the nucleus accumbens and the olfactory tubercle.[1]
Some sources also include the ventromedial parts of the caudate nucleus and putamen.[2]
It is considered a reward center.[3]
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References[edit]
- ^ Ubeda-Bañon I, Novejarque A, Mohedano-Moriano A, et al. (2007). "Projections from the posterolateral olfactory amygdala to the ventral striatum: neural basis for reinforcing properties of chemical stimuli". BMC Neurosci 8: 103. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-8-103. PMC 2216080. PMID 18047654.
- ^ Martin, John Joseph (2003). Neuroanatomy: text and atlas. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 393. ISBN 0-07-138183-X.
- ^ Gregorios-Pippas L, Tobler PN, Schultz W (March 2009). "Short-term temporal discounting of reward value in human ventral striatum". J. Neurophysiol. 101 (3): 1507–23. doi:10.1152/jn.90730.2008. PMC 2666398. PMID 19164109.
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