The brain’s amygdala recognizes the emotional significance of the cue and increases its rate of firing; then, a tide of dopamine released in the goal-oriented nucleus accumbens drives the ...

These secreted peptides are found in both rat and ... within the brain 7,8. Hcrtr1 mRNA is prominent in the prefrontal and intralimbic cortex, hippocampus, paraventricular thalamic nucleus ...