de Lecea Luis, Jones Barbara E, Boutrel Benjamin, Borgland Stephanie L, Nishino Seiji, Bubser Michael, DiLeone Ralph
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
J Neurosci. 2006 Oct 11;26(41):10372-5. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3118-06.2006.
The importance of the lateral hypothalamus in the regulation of reward and motivation has long been recognized. However, the neuronal network involved in such a hypothalamic regulation of reward remains essentially unknown. Recently, hypocretin-containing neurons, a group of hypothalamic neurons known to be associated with the stability of arousal, have emerged as important structures in the control of brain reward function. This review summarizes a Mini-Symposium presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
外侧下丘脑在奖赏和动机调节中的重要性早已得到认可。然而,参与这种下丘脑奖赏调节的神经网络基本上仍不为人所知。最近,含有下丘脑分泌素的神经元,即一组已知与觉醒稳定性相关的下丘脑神经元,已成为控制大脑奖赏功能的重要结构。本综述总结了在2006年神经科学学会年会上举办的一个小型研讨会的内容。