title: A network state linking motivation and action in the nucleus accumbens.
abstract: In this issue of Neuron, McGinty et al. (2013) report that the activity of cue-responsive neurons in the rat nucleus accumbens predicts the vigor of the subsequent approach movement. The characterization of this network state between motivation and action lends novel mechanistic insight to a spectrum of cue-elicited behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Catanese
authors.forename: Matthijs
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van der Meer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003216:Conditioning, Operant / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009714:Nucleus Accumbens / Q000502:physiology*; D012201:Reward