Figure 1. Forebrain regions dissected for postmortem neurochemical analysis. Regions of interest were dissected by pushing micropunch needles of 0.84 or 1.6 mm diameter into the posterior face of the coronal slices, as is indicated. Adapted from “The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, 5e,” by George Paxinos and Charles Watson, Copyright 2005. Reprinted with permission of Elsevier. Numbers indicate distance from bregma in millimeters.