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The nucleus accumbens and learning and memory

✍ Scribed by Barry Setlow

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 41 KB
Volume: 49
Category: Article
ISSN: 0360-4012
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4547(19970901)49:5<515::aid-jnr1>3.0.co;2-e

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✦ Synopsis

Recent research on the nucleus accumbens (NA)

indicates that this brain region is involved in learning and memory processes in a way that is separable from its other well-known roles in behavior, such as motivation, reward, and locomotor activity. These findings have suggested that 1) the NA may be involved in declarative, or hippocampal formation-dependent learning and memory, and not in several other nondeclarative forms of learning and memory, and 2) the NA may be selectively involved in certain stages of learning and memory. These characteristics suggest that the NA may be part of a larger striatal system which subserves acquisition and consolidation, but is not a site of long-term storage, of different forms of learning and memory.

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