title: Multiple personalities in the ventral tegmental area.
abstract: A small number of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons engage in numerous and apparently contradictory functions--how can this be? A clue is provided by Lammel and colleagues in this issue of Neuron: some VTA dopamine neurons display synaptic plasticity in response to cocaine, and others in response to pain, and these populations are distinguished by their axonal projections and Ih.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borgkvist
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mrejeru
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sulzer