What does VTA stand for?

Ventral Tegmental Area

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In the middle of the brain is the reward pathway which includes the ventral tegmental area (VTA), the nucleus accumbens, and the prefrontal cortex.

Alcoholism and the Reward Pathway

Acevedo, who works at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, is part of a team that has isolated those regions with the unromantic names of ventral tegmental area (VTA), the nucleus accumbens, the ventral pallidum and raphe nucleus.

The science of romance: Brains have a love circuit

NEW ORLEANS -- Schizophrenic patients have elevated levels of dopamine D2 receptors in the substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area of the brain, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine.

D2 receptor levels are higher in schizophrenics: greater dopamine ...

A separate study examined the effects of bupropion, naltrexone or the combination of bupropion plus naltrexone when they were selectively administered to the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a part of the brain that is often described as the center of "the reward pathway".

OREXIGEN(TM) Therapeutics Reports Preclinical Results Showing ...