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How do you get motivated? Functional interrogation of the integrative properties of the nucleus accumbens in rats| old_uid | 17438 |
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| title | How do you get motivated? Functional interrogation of the integrative properties of the nucleus accumbens in rats |
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| start_date | 2019/02/20 |
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| schedule | 12h15 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle de conférence Vandel |
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| details | séminaire axe neuro |
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| summary | Learning and memory systems allow stimuli to predict future outcomes through experience. How animals make use of these predictions to control their behavior will be the subject of this talk. The nucleus accumbens, considered as the entry station of the limbic loop of the basal ganglia, is essential to motivate behavior by integrating the knowledge carried by exteroceptive stimuli with interoceptive stimuli related to the internal state of the animal. I will present how input regions to the nucleus accumbens encode both types of stimuli and how they control the activity of nucleus accumbens neurons and the level of motivation. From this functional interrogation of the basal ganglia, I propose that the nucleus accumbens is a convergence hub rather than an entry point of cortical information into this network. |
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| responsibles | <not specified> |
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