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Activating the striatum's indirect pathway halts cocaine-driven licking in mice
A Hebrew University team traced cocaine's compulsive licking in mice to the orofacial action-selection circuit of the ventrolateral striatum, then turned the behavior off and on by moving the region's two competing pathways.
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