TABLE 1:

Projection-specific role in food-seeking behaviors.

Projection	Role	References
PVT to NAc	Food-predictive signals, hunger-induced food-seeking and cue-induced food-seeking	Ong et al., 2017; Labouébe et al., 2016; Meffre et al., 2019; Do-Monte et al., 2017
mPFC PFC to PVT	Food-primed-induced reinstatement Incentive salience attribution	Sun and Rebec, 2005 Campus et al., 2019
Amy to NAc PVT to Amy	Food consumption and cue-induced food-seeking	Stuber et al., 2011; Do-Monte et al., 2017
PFC to PVT to NAc	Cue-reward associations and cue-induced anticipation of food.	Otis et al., 2017;2019
LH to PVT to NAc	Reward consumption and promotion of feeding	Otis et al., 2019

Abbreviations: Amy, Amygdala; BLA; Basolateral Amygdala; LH, Lateral Hypothalamus; NAc, Nucleus Accumbens; PVT, Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus; PFC, Prefrontal Cortex; vmPFC, Ventro-medial PFC.