Zona incerta dopamine neurons encode motivational vigor in food seeking
Qiying Ye, Jeremiah Nunez, Xiaobing Zhang
The paper shows that zona incerta dopamine neurons drive food-seeking behaviors during energy deprivation by encoding motivational vigor and modulating contextual food memory through inhibitory projections to the paraventricular thalamus.
Science Advances · Nov 17, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience