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. 2011 Jun 9;70(5):803-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.05.024.

Multiple personalities in the ventral tegmental area

Anders Borgkvist  1 , Ana Mrejeru, David Sulzer
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Multiple personalities in the ventral tegmental area

Anders Borgkvist et al. Neuron. .

Abstract

A small number of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons engage in numerous and apparently contradictory functions--how can this be? A clue is provided by Lammel and colleagues in this issue of Neuron: some VTA dopamine neurons display synaptic plasticity in response to cocaine, and others in response to pain, and these populations are distinguished by their axonal projections and Ih.

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