Ventral striatum
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| Brain: 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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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Martin, John Joseph (2003). Neuroanatomy: text and atlas, 393, New York: McGraw-Hill.
- ↑ 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.
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