Reward circuitry

Cholinergic interneurons control local circuit activity and cocaine conditioning

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Manipulating cholinergic interneurons established their influence on local nucleus accumbens activity and cocaine conditioning in animal experiments.

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Ilana B Witten, Shih-Chun Lin, Matthew Brodsky, Rohit Prakash, Ilka Diester, Polina Anikeeva, Viviana Gradinaru, Charu Ramakrishnan, Karl Deisseroth