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Neural substrates for reward in the hypothalamus. Mamoru UMEMOTO 1 1Division of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Osaka City University pp.520-528
Published Date 1987/6/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1431905903
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On the basis of recent expeimental findings, this article criticized the view that central dopamine (DA) systems have implicated neural substrates for brain-stimulation reward. Electrophysiological studies (Gallistel et al, 1981, Pompré & Shizgal, 1986) suggested the absolute refractory period and conduction velocity of the fibers involved in the control of self-stimulation (SS) behavior are shorter and too faster than those of unmyclinated fibers. They concluded that the fibers involved in SS might be thick and myelinated. Biochemical studies (Umemoto et al, 1984) demonstrated that DA-depleted and normal rats showed SS behavior in DA regions with quite similar manner. Pharma-cological studies using neurotoxic substances (Ger-fen & Clavier, 1981, Velley et al, 1983, Takeichi et al, 1986) suggested possibilities that the intrinsic neuron plays a crucial role for maintaining SS in the sulcal prefrontal cortex, lateral hypothalamus and ventral tegmentum. It is well known that the destruction of the fibers and bundle which run through the length of the brain have no effects on SS behavior (Umemoto, 1968, Corbett et al, 1977). Furthermore, brain-stimulation reward is ipsilateral phenomenon (Yadin et al, 1983). Considering much of the characteristic common between brain-stimulation reward and morphine, the author have pointed out that the evidence for the DA hypothesis, that is, DA plays the crucial role for motivational aspects in SS, is far from con-clusive, and presented a tentative neural circuit model for brain-stimulation reward (Fig. 5).


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