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The paper inhibits the LH-PVT pathway in rats and finds it reduces goal-tracking behavior, particularly in intermediate responders.

The paper shows that inhibiting VTA dopamine neurons during reward cue presentation prevents sign-tracking behavior, confirming dopamine's role in encoding incentive value.

The paper shows that inhibiting the PrL-PVT pathway reduces cue-induced relapse in ST rats but not GT rats, highlighting individual differences in relapse vulnerability.

This study investigates the role of the lateral hypothalamus and orexinergic signaling in the paraventricular thalamus in attributing incentive salience to reward cues using Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior in rats.

This study shows that the PrL-PVT pathway modulates incentive value attribution to reward-cues in rats, with distinct effects in sign-trackers and goal-trackers.