title: Insulin and ventral tegmental dopamine: what's impaired and what's intact?
abstract: Manipulations affecting mesolimbic dopamine transmission exert specific effects on normal and pathological aspects of motivation, altering some functions while sparing others. Labouèbe et al. (2013) show that insulin induced long-term depression in ventral tegmental neurons, which was associated with reduced responsiveness to food-related stimuli but spared aspects of food-seeking behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA. john.salamone@uconn.edu
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Salamone
authors.forename: Mercè
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Correa