Circuits regulating pleasure and happiness: The evolution of the amygdalar-hippocampal-habenular connectivity in vertebrates

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue NOV, 2016, Pages

  Loonen, Anton J M ^a,b   Ivanova, Svetlana A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GGZ Westelijk Noord Brabant   (Netherlands)

^c MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH TOMSK POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cerebral cortex; Evolution; Habenula; Hippocampus; Reward; Stress

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; AMYGDALA; ANCESTRY GROUP; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATERAL PALLIUM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FOREBRAIN; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HABENULA; HAPPINESS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEDIAL HABENULA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOOD DISORDER; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PLEASURE; REWARD; STRIA TERMINALIS; SYMPTOM; VENTRAL PALLIUM; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 85009753138     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00539     Document Type: Article

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