tegmental

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.

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Eric Berne, A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalyis (1976) p. 69 and 101 Factors that affect libido Endogenous compounds Libido is governed primarily by activity in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway ( ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens ). Source: Internet

Dopaminergic projections from the ventral tegmental area (bottom part of the "midbrain" or mesencephalon) to the prefrontal cortex (mesocortical pathway) and to the nucleus accumbens (mesolimbic pathway - "meso" referring to "from the mesencephalon".. Source: Internet

However, cocaine is more active in the dopaminergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area than the substantia nigra. Source: Internet

The calbindin theory would explain the high cytotoxicity of Parkinson's in the substantia nigra compared to the ventral tegmental area. Source: Internet

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