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CEA (central amygdaloid nucleus) functionally connects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

Species: Rat
Result: present
Method: optogenetic circuit mapping
Sign: unknown
Evidence: CeA ChR2 stimulation paired with sucrose/cocaine pursuit or with shock-rod attraction was followed by elevated Fos in the rostromedial quadrant of nucleus accumbens medial shell (over 700% above baseline in the reward group; over 180% above eYFP in the shock-rod group), whereas caudal medial shell showed no significant change.
Source: The central amygdala recruits mesocorticolimbic circuitry for pursuit of reward or pain
Nature Communications, 2020
DOI 10.1038/s41467-020-16407-1 · PubMed 32483118 · PMC7264246, Results, 'Shock-rod attraction activates mesocorticolimbic circuity'; Fig. 5; Supplementary Table 1
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “central nucleus of amygdala (CeA)” and “rostromedial shell of nucleus accumbens (NAc)”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
Checked by: a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Rostromedial NAc shell elevations (>700% reward, >180% shock-rod) and null caudal shell result match the text.”
Status: proposed
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