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A schematic summary of the reviewed experiments. Areas involved in associative learning (green) and maintaining homeostasis (blue) project to the LHA. The LHA sends projections to motivation and reward areas (red) to initiate motivated behaviors. The LHA also sends projections to the nucleus accumbens that may promote motivated behaviors (dashed line).
