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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) functionally connects to BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- optogenetic circuit mapping
- Sign
- excitatory
- Evidence
- Glutamatergic currents from optogenetically activated VTA dopaminergic terminals were more frequent and larger in fast-spiking BA interneurons than in excitatory neurons, and were often strong enough to make them fire action potentials.
- Source
State-specific gating of salient cues by midbrain dopaminergic input to basal amygdala
Nature Neuroscience, 2019
DOI 10.1038/s41593-019-0506-0 · PubMed 31611706 · PMC6858554, Fig. 7d-gLicence: http://www.springer.com/tdm
- Named in the paper
- “VTADA➜BA axons” and “fast-spiking inhibitory interneurons (FS INs) in BA”
- Made by
- an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
- Checked by
a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Slice ChR2 mapping showed larger, more frequent glutamatergic currents in BA fast-spiking interneurons, sometimes driving spikes, as the locator panels show.”
- Status
proposed
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