Cortical operation of the ventral striatal switchboard

Garret D Stuber

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.03.013

Cortical operation of the ventral striatal switchboard

Neuron. 2013 Apr 10;78(1):6-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.03.013.

Author

Garret D Stuber¹

Affiliation

¹ Departments of Psychiatry & Cell Biology and Physiology, Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. gstuber@med.unc.edu

Abstract

How does the ventral striatum (VS) prioritize and process afferent input? In this issue, Calhoon and O'Donnell (2013) demonstrate that cortical projections to the VS can attenuate hippocampal and thalamic VS input, suggesting that the cortex can uniquely control VS circuit dynamics.

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Grants and funding

R01 DA032750/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States