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The adolescent brain and age-related behavioral manifestations

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Functional architecture of basal ganglia circuits: neural substrates of parallel processing

Schultz, Wolfram. Predictive reward signal of dopamine neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 1–27, 1998. The effects of lesions, receptor blocking, electrical self-stimulation, and drugs of abuse suggest t...

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Predictive Reward Signal of Dopamine Neurons

The ability to find one's way depends on neural algorithms that integrate information about place, distance and direction, but the implementation of these operations in cortical microcircuits is poorly understood. Here we show that the dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex (dMEC) contains a directionally oriented, topographically organized neural map of the spatial environment. Its key unit is the 'grid cell', which is activated whenever the animal's position coincides with any vertex of a regular grid of equilateral triangles spanning the surface of the environment. Grids of neighbouring cells share a common orientation and spacing, but their vertex locations (their phases) differ. The spacing and size of individual fields increase from dorsal to ventral dMEC. The map is anchored to external landmarks, but persists in their absence, suggesting that grid cells may be part of a generalized, path-integration-based map of the spatial environment.

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Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

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Putting a spin on the dorsal–ventral divide of the striatum

Do rats have a prefrontal cortex

Functional organization of the extrinsic and intrinsic circuitry of the parahippocampal region

The intralaminar and midline nuclei of the thalamus. Anatomical and functional evidence for participation in processes of arousal and awareness

Organization of the projections from the subiculum to the ventral striatum in the rat. A study using anterograde transport of Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin.

Henk J. Groenewegen

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Putting a spin on the dorsal–ventral divide of the striatum

Do rats have a prefrontal cortex

Functional organization of the extrinsic and intrinsic circuitry of the parahippocampal region

The intralaminar and midline nuclei of the thalamus. Anatomical and functional evidence for participation in processes of arousal and awareness

Organization of the projections from the subiculum to the ventral striatum in the rat. A study using anterograde transport of Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin.