Dopamine and GABA neurons in the ventral tegmental area project to the nucleus
accumbens and prefrontal cortex and modulate locomotor and reward behaviors as well as …

Midbrain dopamine systems play important roles in Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia,
addiction, and depression. The participation of midbrain dopamine systems in diverse …

The ventral tegmental area (VTA) has a central role in the neural processes that underlie
motivation and behavioral reinforcement. Although thought to contain only dopamine and …

The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is thought to play an important role in reward function. Two
populations of neurons, containing either dopamine (DA) or γ‐amino butyric acid (GABA) …

The ventral tegmental area (VTA) contributes to reward and motivation signaling. In addition
to the well established populations of dopamine (DA) or GABA VTA neurons, glutamatergic …

Glutamatergic inputs to the ventral tegmental area (VTA), thought crucial to the capacity of
the VTA to detect and signal stimulus salience, have been reported to arise in but a few …

Midbrain dopamine neurons signal rapid information about rewards and reward‐related
events. It has been suggested that this fast signal may, in fact, be conveyed by co‐released …

Glutamate transmission is critical for controlling cortical activity, but the specific contribution
of the different isoforms of vesicular glutamate transporters in subcortical pathways to the …

Abstract Vesicular glutamate transporters (VGLUT1,‐2, and‐3) mediate the accumulation of
transmitter glutamate into synaptic vesicles in glutamatergic neurons. VGLUT1 and VGLUT2 …

The “One neuron-one neurotransmitter” concept has been challenged frequently during the
last three decades, and the coexistence of neurotransmitters in individual neurons is now …