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Ventral tegmental area anterior part left


Abbreviation
VTAA
Color       
Superior regionsVentral tegmental area A10

SynonymsAbbr.Language
Ventral tegmental area anterior partVTAA 
Ventral tegmental area A10 anterior partVTAanEng
Anterior ventral tegmentum Eng

SubregionsSide
Ventral tegmental area anterior part intermediate levelleft
Ventral tegmental area anterior part ventral layerleft
Ventral tegmental area anterior part dorsal layerleft

Output to

NameSideAbbr.WeightDetails
Medial pontine nucleusipsiMPoN-2
Ventral tegmental area A10ipsiVTA2
Medial septal nucleus rostrodorsal partipsiMSrd0.5
Mammillary bodyipsiCMAM3
Lateral mammillary nucleusipsiLM1
Lateral habenular nucleusipsiLHb3
Lateral habenular nucleus medial partipsiLHbM3
Accumbens nucleusipsiAc-0.5
Anteroventral subventricular zoneipsiSVZav-0.5
Anterior subgranular zoneipsiSGZa-0.5
Cingulate cortexipsiCg2
Prelimbic cortexipsiPrL-0.5
Infralimbic cortexipsiIL-0.5
Prefrontal cortex layer 2ipsiPFCL20.5
Prefrontal cortex layer 3ipsiPFCL30.5
Prefrontal cortex layer 5ipsiPFCL53
Prefrontal cortex layer 6ipsiPFCL63
Medial prefrontal cortexipsimPFC-0.5
Lateral septal nucleusipsiLS-0.5

Input from

NameSideAbbr.WeightDetails
Ventral tegmental tailipsiVTTa3
Parabrachial pigmented nucleus rostral partipsiPBPr-0.5
Nucleus of the solitary tractipsiSol0.5
Superior central raphe nucleusipsiCS3
Dorsal tuberomammillary nucleusipsiDTM-0.5
Ventral tuberomammillary nucleusipsiVTM-0.5
Lateral hypothalamic areaipsiLH-0.5
Anterior hypothalamic areaipsiAHA-0.5
Area lateralis hypothalamicus posterior [Regio hypothalamus caudalis]ipsiDMrhc-0.5
Area periventricularis hypothalamica communis [Regio hypothalamus caudalis]ipsiPeRHC-0.5
Centromedial nucleus of hypothalamusipsiMHAcm-0.5
Posterior hypothalamic areaipsiPHA-0.5
Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleusipsiVMH-0.5
Arcuate nucleusipsiArc-0.5
Mammillary bodyipsiCMAM3
Zona incertaipsiZI-0.5
Lateral habenular nucleus caudal half of lateral partipsiLHbLc-0.5
Lateral habenular nucleus dorsal layer of lateral partipsiLHbLdL-0.5
Lateral habenular nucleus ventral layer lateral partipsiLHbLvL-0.5
Lateral habenular nucleus medial partipsiLHbM-0.5
Medial forebrain bundleipsimfb-0.5
Lateral septal nucleusipsiLS-0.5

Key for weights

ValueWeight
-3 unknown
-2 fibers of passage
-1 not clear
-0.5 exists
0 not present
0.5 very light
1 light / sparse
1.5 light / moderate
2 moderate / dense
2.5 moderate / strong
3 strong
4 very strong





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