The Retrograde Connections and Anatomical Segregation of the Göttingen Minipig Nucleus Accumbens

• Published in: Frontiers in neuroanatomy Vol. 10; p. 117
• Main Authors: Meidahl, Anders C, Orlowski, Dariusz, Sørensen, Jens C H, Bjarkam, Carsten R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 05.12.2016; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: Amygdala; Animal behavior; Animal models; Brain research; Calbindin; Clinical medicine; Cortex (entorhinal); DARPP-32 protein; Deep Brain Stimulation; Fluorogold; Hippocampus; Hogs; Hypothalamus (dorsomedial); Immunohistochemistry; Laboratory animals; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mental disorders; Myelin; Neostriatum; Neuroscience; Neurosciences; Neurosurgery; Nucleus accumbens; Obsessive compulsive disorder; OCD; Prefrontal cortex; Raphe nuclei; Sensory neurons; Striatum; Studies; Subiculum; Substantia nigra; Sus scrofa; Thalamus; Therapeutic applications; treatment resistant depression; Ventral tegmentum; Denmark; Aarhus Denmark; calbindin; OCD; striatum; fluorogold; treatment resistant depression; deep brain stimulation; sus scrofa

Nucleus accumbens (NAcc) has been implicated in several psychiatric disorders such as treatment resistant depression (TRD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and has been an ongoing experimental target for deep brain stimulation (DBS) in both rats and humans. In order to translate basic scien...