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SSp (Primary somatosensory area) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

All claims for this connection
Species
Rat
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Strength
weak
Evidence
Sparse, weak axonal labeling was observed in the nucleus accumbens core after genital cortex injections.
Source

Physiological and Anatomical Outputs of Rat Genital Cortex

Cerebral Cortex, 2018

DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhx359 · PubMed 29373631 · PMC6093453, Fig. 7A,D,E, Table 2

Licence: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Named in the paper
“penis/clitoris cortex” and “core of the nucleus accumbens”
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-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09

“Sparse accumbens core labeling is shown in Fig. 7D–E.”

Status

proposed

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