ArticleCurrent opinion in endocrine and metabolic research2022
Stressed and wired: The effects of stress on the VTA circuits underlying motivated behavior.
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- The Endogenous Opioid System in Compulsive Eating.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Identification of a stress-sensitive endogenous opioid-containing neuronal population in the paranigral ventral tegmental area.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Sleep and stress as modifiable drivers of Alzheimer's disease.NPJ dementia · 2026Review
- Single-Nucleus RNA-Seq Reveals PTSD-Associated Transcriptional Changes in Dopaminergic Neurons of the Lateral VTA.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Article
- Untangling the multifaceted VTA responses to stress.Trends in neurosciences · 2025Review
- Salience Signaling and Stimulus Scaling of Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate Neuron Subtypes.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Cross-species dissection of the modular role of the ventral tegmental area in depressive disorders.Neuroscience · 2025Review
- The link between early-life adversity and later alcohol use disorder: A role for microglia?Neurobiology of stress · 2025Article
- Chronic in vivo sequelae of repetitive acute mfb-DBS on accumbal dopamine and midbrain neuronal activity.Journal of neurochemistry · 2025Article
- Transcriptional Profiling of Rat Prefrontal Cortex after Acute Inescapable Footshock Stress.Genes · 2023Article
- Estrous Cycle Mediates Midbrain Neuron Excitability Altering Social Behavior upon Stress.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Stress affects many brain regions, including the ventral tegmental area (VTA), which is critically involved in reward processing. Excessive stress can reduce reward-seeking behaviors but also exacerbate substance use disorders, two seemingly contradictory outcomes. Recent research has revealed that the VTA is a heterogenous structure with diverse populations of efferents and afferents serving different functions. Stress has correspondingly diverse effects on VTA neuron activity, tending to decrease lateral VTA dopamine (DA) neuron activity, while increasing medial VTA DA and GABA neuron activity. Here we review the differential effects of stress on the activity of these distinct VTA neuron populations and how they contribute to decreases in reward-seeking behavior or increases in drug self-administration.
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