Male and female mice usually prefer female companions but switch to preferring males under survival stress, a new study ...
Male and female mice both prefer social interaction with female mice under normal conditions, but both switch to preferring males when their survival ...
Male and female mice both prefer social interaction with female mice under normal conditions, but both switch to preferring males when their survival is threatened, according to a new study by Anqi ...
Objective: The ventral tegmental area (VTA), a pivotal hub in the brain’s reward circuitry, receives inputs from the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA). However, it remains unclear whether ...
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United ...
They further determined that the ventral tegmental area of the midbrain, which is the origin of dopamine neurons, plays a mediating role in this response. Under stress, animals change their ...
Furthermore, these changes were also suppressed when the activity of the ventral tegmental area, which receives input from neurons in the lateral habenula, was pharmacologically inhibited.