Music, an abstract stimulus, can arouse feelings of euphoria and craving, similar to tangible rewards that involve the striatal dopaminergic system. (nature.com)
Su - Rong Yang, Zhen - Zhen Hu, Yan - Jia Luo, Ya - Nan Zhao, Huan - Xin Sun, Zhi - Li Huang and colleagues show that the tail of the ventral tegmental area of the midbrain, which is primarily composed of GABAergic neurons, regulates non-rapid eye movement sleep by modulating dopaminergic systems. (journals.plos.org)
The nigral dopaminergic system and the striatum, which are critically involved in action learning and motor control (as evidenced... >> MORE (ellisonfoundation.org)