Keywords: Dopamine pathways.svg en Dopamine Pathways In the brain dopamine plays an important role in the regulation of reward and movement As part of the reward pathway dopamine is manufactured in nerve cell bodies located within the ventral tegmental area VTA and is released in the nucleus accumbens and the prefrontal cortex Its motor functions are linked to a separate pathway with cell bodies in the substantia nigra that manufacture and release dopamine into the striatum 2012-06-17 Derivative work of File Dopamine Pathways png NIDA Quasihuman NIH Uploaded with UploadWizard Dopamine Ventral tegmental area Substantia nigra Nucleus accumbens Striatum Prefrontal cortex Hippocampus anatomy Mesencephalon Dopamine pathway |