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SUBMITTER: Parker NF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4882228 | biostudies-other | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature neuroscience 20160425 6
Dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the midbrain provide rich topographic innervation of the striatum and are central to learning and to generating actions. Despite the importance of this DA innervation, it remains unclear whether and how DA neurons are specialized on the basis of the location of their striatal target. Thus, we sought to compare the function of subpopulations of DA neurons that target distinct striatal subregions in the context of an instrumental reversal learning task. We identified k ...[more]