A new study published in Diagnostics provides evidence that the striatum, rather than the cerebral cortex, receives the highest concentration of dopamine input in the brain. Advanced confocal ...

Image shows the two regions of the brain that were inactivated during the task – the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) and the tail of the striatum (TS). Credit: Hernando Martinez Vergara   ...

In a healthy brain, it causes certain neurons and astrocytes, a type of glial support cell, in the striatum to produce proteins called neuroprotective factors. As their name suggests, these ...