mesolimbic
adjEtymology From meso- + limbic.
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Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroanatomy, Neurology, Neuroscience, Sciences Relating to the middle part of the limbic system.
- “The mesocortical, mesolimbic, and nigrostriatal dopamine pathways are what the call the reward pathways, all right? They’re the ones that activate when we’re expecting or receiving a reward.”2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 154:
- Derived terms
- corticomesolimbic, mesolimbic pathway