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 ...

It is characterised by progressive degeneration of the dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc), which reduces the levels of dopamine available for neurotransmission in the ...