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ArticleeLife2017

Anatomical and functional organization of the human substantia nigra and its connections.

Yu Zhang, Kevin Michel-Herve Larcher, Bratislav Misic, Alain Dagher

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Yu ZhangMontreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Kevin Michel-Herve LarcherMontreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Bratislav MisicMontreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Alain DagherMontreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0945-5779

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CIHR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated the anatomical and functional organization of the human substantia nigra (SN) using diffusion and functional MRI data from the Human Connectome Project. We identified a tripartite connectivity-based parcellation of SN with a limbic, cognitive, motor arrangement. The medial SN connects with limbic striatal and cortical regions and encodes value (greater response to monetary wins than losses during fMRI), while the ventral SN connects with associative regions of cortex and striatum and encodes salience (equal response to wins and losses). The lateral SN connects with somatomotor regions of striatum and cortex and also encodes salience. Behavioral measures from delay discounting and flanker tasks supported a role for the value-coding medial SN network in decisional impulsivity, while the salience-coding ventral SN network was associated with motor impulsivity. In sum, there is anatomical and functional heterogeneity of human SN, which underpins value versus salience coding, and impulsive choice versus impulsive action.

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ConnectomeAdultFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleNeural PathwaysSubstantia Nigradopaminehumanimpulsivityneurosciencereward prediction errorsaliencetractographyvalue

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PMID28826495
PMCPMC5606848

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