期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 36, 期 18, 页码 5047-5054出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4236-15.2016
关键词
decision-making; fMRI; lesion; prefrontal cortex; reward; striatum
资金
- National Institutes of Health Grants [R01MH101162, T32GM007507]
The ventral striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) are two central nodes of the reward circuit of the brain. Human neuroimaging studies have demonstrated coincident activation and functional connectivity between these brain regions, and animal studies have demonstrated that the vmPFC modulates ventral striatum activity. However, there have been no comparable data in humans to address whether the vmPFC may be critical for the reward-related response properties of the ventral striatum. In this study, we used fMRI in five neurosurgical patients with focal vmPFC lesions to test the hypothesis that the vmPFC is necessary for enhancing ventral striatum responses to the anticipation of reward. In support of this hypothesis, we found that, compared with age-and gender-matched neurologically healthy subjects, the vmPFC-lesioned patients had reduced ventral striatal activity during the anticipation of reward. Furthermore, we observed that the vmPFC-lesioned patients had decreased volumes of the accumbens subregion of the ventral striatum. Together, these functional and structural neuroimaging data provide novel evidence for a critical role for the vmPFC in contributing to reward-related activity of the ventral striatum. These results offer new insight into the functional and structural interactions between key components of the brain circuitry underlying human affective function and decision-making.
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