Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Ventral Tegmental Area

"Ventral Tegmental Area" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information
Definition  |  Details  |  More General Concepts  |  Related Concepts  |  More Specific Concepts
A region in the mesencephalon which is dorsomedial to the substantia nigra and ventral to the red nucleus. The mesocortical and mesolimbic dopaminergic systems originate here, including an important projection to the nucleus accumbens. Overactivity of the cells in this area has been suspected to contribute to the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.


publications
Timeline   |   Most Recent
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ventral Tegmental Area" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Ventral Tegmental Area" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 98 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2019
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
Related Networks
People
Explore
_
Similar Concepts
_
Top Journals 
_
© 2021 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.