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The mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway involved in “wanting” of rewards in humans
The mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway projects from the ventral tegmental area to the ventral striatum, hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex. The projection from prefrontal cortex to the nucleus accumbens is not a dopaminergic pathway and is thus not shown in the figure. Previous research (18) has demonstrated that projections shown in the figure are associated with motivational “wanting” of rewards.
