Rigid thinkers tend to have lower levels of dopamine in their prefrontal cortex and higher levels of dopamine in their striatum, a key midbrain structure in our reward system that controls our rapid instincts. So our psychol...
What Is the Role of the Intralaminar Thalamic Input to the Striatum and Its Potential Implications in Parkinson Disease?doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000207610Benarroch, Eduardo MDNeurology
Another thing we saw was greater activation in the striatum, the part of the striatum that is involved in reward processing before the professional comedians were coming up with the funnier ideas. So the funnier the joke would be, then the more activation you see in the striatum before they...
. It also plays a role in the subjective experience of pleasure. Disorders or alterations in the mesolimbic system (pathway) have a key role in the development of addictions. The mesolimbic pathway connects areas of the midbrain (ventral tegmental area (VTA)) with the brain (ventral striatum)...
Music and morphine both introduce this “feel-good” neurotransmitter into your brain’s striatum. The striatum is an area that responds to rewarding stimuli like food andsex. This is likely why people list music in the top five things that are pleasurable. ...
Amygdala' and 'amygdalar complex' are terms that now refer to a highly differentiated region near the temporal pole of the mammalian cerebral hemisphere. Cell groups within it appear to be differentiated parts of the traditional cortex, the claustrum, or the striatum, and these parts belong to ...
surrounded by areticular nucleus, which is a nucleus consisting of the bodies of inhibitory neurons. The caudate and putamen together are called thestriatum,which lies just next to the globus pallidus (actually a pair of structures and also called thelenticular nuclei) on each side of the brain...
Recovery capital is the internal and external resource used to begin the recovery process and maintain sobriety. This combines personal, social, and community support to provide a joined-up approach that supports the addict through recovery.
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Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG mutation within the IT15 gene encoding huntingtin protein. Even though mutant and normal huntingtin are ubiquitously expressed, the degenerative processes primarily occur within the striatum and particularly ...