Important brain reward pathway confirmed by researchers

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 04:31 in Biology & Nature

Details of the role of glutamate, the brain's excitatory chemical, in a drug reward pathway have been identified for the first time. This discovery in rodents shows that stimulation of glutamate neurons in a specific brain region leads to activation of dopamine-containing neurons in the brain's reward circuit.

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