Jackson J Cone et al.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 34(14), 4905-4913 (2014-04-04)
Brief, high-concentration (phasic) spikes in nucleus accumbens dopamine critically participate in aspects of food reward. Although physiological state (e.g., hunger, satiety) and associated hormones are known to affect dopamine tone in general, whether they modulate food-evoked, phasic dopamine specifically is