Tuesday, August 20, 2013

The brain reward circuitry in mood disorders

The brain reward circuitry in mood disorders
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Issue - nature.com science feeds

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 14, 609 (2013). doi:10.1038/nrn3381

Authors: Scott J. Russo & Eric J. Nestler

Mood disorders are common and debilitating conditions characterized in part by profound deficits in reward-related behavioural domains. A recent literature has identified important structural and functional alterations within the brain's reward circuitry — particularly in the ventral tegmental area–nucleus accumbens pathway — that are associated

Original Article: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nrn/rss/current/~3/VIOt4Tjj7LI/nrn3381

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