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mesocortical pathway ✔✔executive function: attention, focus, depression nigrostriatal pathway ✔✔from substantia nigra (brainstem) to striatum (muscles): Parkinson's mesolimbic pathway ✔✔ ... projects to nucleus accumbens (part of limbic system). Pleasure, reward, positive symptoms of schizophrenia: Addiction, gambling Tuberoinfundibular pathway ✔✔regulation of prolactin (acts on pituitary). Hypersexuality in mania Dopamine ✔✔produced in substania nigra and VTA. D2 & D4 receptors most important. Elevated in the mesolimbic pathway associated with pleasure and psychosis. Antispychotics block dopamine. travels through mesocoritc [Show More]

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