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Abstract #3906

Deep Brain Stimulation of the Rodent Nucleus Accumbens Recruits Subcortical Limbic Networks

Daniel Albaugh 1,2 , Garret Stuber 3 , and Yen-Yu Ian Shih 4

1 Curriculum in Neurobiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 2 Biomedical Imaging Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 3 Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 4 BRIC, Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the nucleus accumbens is a promising therapy for a wide variety of intractable neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, we have employed an animal model of DBS, with simultaneous fMRI, to decipher the neural circuitry modulated by accumbens DBS.

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