@dae Wow...so cool! They are so clever and social. We are finally back to investigating them as well. The linkage between #NAcc dopamine release and 50 kHz USVs is strong...

More evidence that reward anticipation increases delta-band activity in the #NAcc (in an epileptic patient)...
https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(23)00348-7/fulltext

@bensaunders #NAcc shell don't care...

Nucleus Accumbens (#NAcc) activity during reward anticipation blunted in children with two parents with alcohol use problems (versus one or none) in two large longitudinal samples (#FMRI, #MIDtask):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320357/

Mesolimbic #FMRI activity (including #MPFC and #NAcc) predicts visual cue-elicited craving for food and drugs in humans (#replication, #extension):
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01228-w

As with monetary reward anticipation, blunted #NAcc activity during social (but not food) reward anticipation in adults with #ADHD:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925492722001202

Acute cannabis blunts monetary #reward anticipation in the #NAcc of both adolescents and adults (d~.50; from @m_wall’s gang, #MIDtask):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902222002506

Deep brain stimulation of the human ALIC / Nucleus Accumbens (#NAcc) increases risk taking in a gambling task:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902222002518