Dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and dopamine levels in the striatum were unaffected. The comprehensive experimental results demonstrate that Parkin–PINK1 and OMA1 control both outer ...

They found there was inflammation and brain damage in the striatum following the stroke, which they had expected. What the researchers didn’t expect was the impact on another area of the brain, the ...

substantia nigra-ventral tegmental area, and ventral striatum (Oba and colleagues, 2016). This co-activation of memory and reward systems is associated with individual nostalgia tendencies and ...

Parkinson's disease is characterized by the degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta ... to dopamine depletion in the striatum and motor symptoms like ...

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