mesolimbic pathway
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one of the brain's dopamine pathways, often called the "reward centre"
Research
1,915 papers- Essential role of BDNF in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway in social defeat stress.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2006
- Role of the mesolimbic dopamine pathway in the antidepressant effects of ketamine.Neuropharmacology · 2023
- Stress and the dopaminergic reward system.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2020
- Nicotine addiction: More than just dopamine.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2023
- A review of addiction.Postgraduate medicine · 2008
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