Figure 2. Selectively switching off a brain pathway involved in motivation. (IMAGE)

Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University

Figure 2. Selectively switching off a brain pathway involved in motivation.

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Researchers introduced artificial “switches” into specific brain cells in the ventral striatum. By giving a drug (DCZ) to a connected brain region, the ventral pallidum, they were able to block communication along this pathway, allowing them to test its role in motivation.

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