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. 2015 May 27;9:66. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00066

Table 4.

The 25 brain regions with highest scores for which connections have been found in the literature for the nucleus accumbens based on ABA and braiNER lexicons.

Nucleus accumbens
ABA Brainer
Region Score Region Score
Ventral tegmental area 454 ventral tegmental area 238
Caudoputamen 412 Striatum 95
Cerebral cortex 295 prefrontal cortex 68
Striatum-like amygdalar nuclei 175 Amygdala 54
Hippocampal region 122 medial prefrontal cortex 52
Ammon's horn 93 Hippocampus 47
Hippocampal formation 70 Hippocampal 41
Pallidum 61 basolateral amygdala 40
Midbrain 53 caudate-putamen 39
Subiculum 38 Cortical 35
Thalamus 28 Mesolimbic 31
Hypothalamus 28 hippocampal formation 29
Periaqueductal gray 23 ventral pallidum 26
Olfactory tubercle 22 ventral striatum 20
Basolateral amygdalar nucleus 19 caudate putamen 16
Fimbria 18 Thalamus 14
Nucleus raphe pontis 18 Neostriatum 13
Entorhinal area 18 Septum 13
Dorsal nucleus raphe 13 caudate nucleus 13
Globus pallidus, external segment 12 Mesencephalic 13
medial forebrain bundle 11 Amygdaloid 12
Paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus 11 Limbic 12
Lateral preoptic area 9 dorsal raphe nucleus 11
Nucleus of the solitary tract 8 paraventricular of the thalamus 11
stria terminalis 8 corpus striatum 11

The complete results can be found in http://connectivity-brainer.rhcloud.com.