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AI (Agranular insular area) synapses onto ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

1 claim from 1 source: 1 found, 0 tested and absent, 0 ambiguous. Evidence: transsynaptic tracer. Strongest reported: weak.

The claims behind it

clm-kkktaemc8kpresenttranssynaptic tracerstrength: weakproposed

The insular cortex held a small number of monosynaptic inputs to accumbal NPY neurons labelled by rabies tracing.

DOI 10.3389/fnana.2021.741868 · PubMed 34566585 · PMC8460764, Results, Retrograde Tracing of Global Inputs section

Made by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) is unsure. “The paper says only 'insular cortex', so mapping it to the agranular insular area specifically cannot be confirmed.”