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The lentivirus is not capable of expanding, so it stays isolated to the injection site in the striatum.

The mouse model in the study is derived by injecting α-Syn preformed fibrils into the striatum.

It’s also invasive; a surgery is performed to implant an electrode into the striatum.

But, the most important part is that the striatum cells also sometimes package up Cre mRNA in their vesicles.

This tells the authors that red glowing cells received a vesicle from a cell in the striatum.

Nicotine causes the release of dopamine in the mesolimbic area, the corpus striatum, and the frontal cortex.

And if it really matters deeply to survival it again gets shifted in striatum.

They found the model was most often looking to the default mode network, striatum, and the limbic network to make the call.

Not sure if dopamine build-up in the striatum (or whatever the specific effect of dopaminergic amphetamines is) would be of any relevance.

If you're thinking of ventral striatum, it does something more like motor vigor.

Turns out that the striatum has two areas that are over-connected to it.

They injected this virus into one area of the mouse brain, the striatum.

"A Cut Above - How the Prefrontal Cortex Dominates the Striatum Like a High-End Hair Salon"

The "classic" picture is that the norepinephrine transporter affects dopamine levels in prefrontal cortex and norepinephrine levels throughout the brain, and the dopamine transporter affects dopamine levels in the striatum.

"After injecting the particles throughout the striatum, the researchers were able to map the distribution of light from an optical fiber implanted nearby." Oh, it is an intrusive technology.

The research is based a-priori on knowing that competition is fun, and is asking the question “which specific parts of the brain are making it fun?” The abstract concludes: “Both before and after outgroup exclusion, aggression towards outgroup members was positively associated with activity in the ventral striatum during decisions about how aggressive to be towards their outgroup opponent.

Reward circuitry (Striatum) often overpowers logical simulation (Cortex).