The basal ganglia(BG) act as a cohesive functional unit that regulates motor function,habit formation,and reward/addictive behaviors. However,it is still not well understood how the BG maintains wakefulness and suppre...
The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(81573407,81302746,81202511,81173031);National Mega-project of Scicence Research of China for New Drug Development(2009ZX09103-124);Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Eductaion of China(20100001110048)
OBJECTIVE Dorsal raphe nucleus(DRN) is the largest single collection of neurons containing5-HT in the entire brain and particularly attractive in a wide variety of complex physiological and behavioral processes,such a...