Midbrain
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- The auditory midbrain is adapted to this task by its anatomy of stacked neuronal layers.
- Dopamine-mediated volume transmission in midbrain is regulated by distinct extracellular geometry and uptake.
- Reward-related FMRI activation of dopaminergic midbrain is associated with enhanced hippocampus-dependent long-term memory formation.
- The midbrain is located in the posterior cranial fossa.
- The dorsal roof of the midbrain is referred to as the tegmentum (which produces dopamine) whereas more centrally located is the substantia nigra, a major source of corpus striatal dopamine.
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