Topic: contralateral movement

Midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons are thought to be critical for reinforcement learning as well as motor control. One important target for DA neurons is the striatum where different subregions are innervated by different midbrain DA neurons. A wealth of evidence suggests that DA release in the ventral striatum acts as a reward prediction error (RPE) to support cue-outcome associations while DA manipulations in the dorsolateral striatum produce gross effects on movement. The dorsomedial striatum (DMS), located between the ventral and dorsolateral striatum, may represent an intermediate position al