Acute Social Stress Engages Synergistic Activity of Stress Mediators in the VTA to Promote Pavlovian Reward Learning
Jorge Tovar-Díaz, Matthew B. Pomrenze, Bahram Pahlavan, Russell Kan, Michael R. Drew, Hitoshi Morikawa
This study shows that acute social stress enhances learning of appetitive cues via synergistic CRF and NE signaling in the VTA, promoting Pavlovian reward conditioning.
bioRxiv · Sep 20, 2017 · PreprintNeuroscience