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‘Feedback’ for feeding

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A new study discovered that ventral pallidal neurons projecting back to the nucleus accumbens promote consumption. The findings call into question the accepted direction of information flow through the ventral basal ganglia and open new avenues for studying how consumption is regulated in proportion to subjective value.

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Fig. 1: Arkypallidal populations for the suppression of learned associations.

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