For example, considerable data support a role for the CeA, BNST, and noradrenergic systems in the maintenance of alcohol dependence see Koob , suggesting that the process of addiction is linked to activation of stress and HPA axis excitatory pathways. Conversely, activation of reward pathways is known to significantly buffer stress reactivity via the amygdaloid complex, suggesting a mechanism whereby the rewarding effects of alcohol may reduce perceived stress Ulrich-Lai et al.
Alcohol also has profound effects on medial prefrontal cortical neural activity, and chronic use is associated with prefrontal hypofunction poor impulse control in humans see Abernathy et al. In combination with the gain of function seen in amygdalar—BNST circuits, these observations suggest that chronic alcohol use causes marked changes across the limbic stress control network, biasing the organism for stress hyperreactivity.
Overall, adequate control of the HPA axis is a requirement for both short- and long-term survival. The overlap between HPA regulatory and addiction circuits identifies key points that may be targets for both the long-term detrimental effects of alcohol abuse as well as dependence itself.
The importance of circuit overlap is further underscored by the powerful reciprocal relationship between life stress and drinking, which complicates efforts to establish and maintain abstinence.
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Keywords: Addiction, alcohol and other drug—seeking behavior, alcohol use and abuse, stress, stressor, chronic stress reaction, stress integration, physiological response to stress, psychogenic stress responses, brain, neural pathways, limbic-paraventricular pathway, limbic stress control network, hypothalamic—pituitary—adrenal axis, literature review.
Open in a separate window. Figure 1. Figure 2. Stress Circuitry and Alcohol Readers familiar with the alcohol literature will no doubt find considerable overlap between the stress circuitry described above and brain circuitry linked to alcohol intake. Footnotes 1 For the definition of this and other technical terms, see the Glossary, pp. Financial Disclosure The author declares that he has no competing financial interests.
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Any damage or defect to corpus callosum can result in impairment of behavior as coordination is lost between the right and left halves of the brain. It can lead to disorder " Split Brain Syndrome ". In the visual pathway, many cells and synapses are involved. In this pathway, visual images are carried from different parts of the eye to the brain.
The optic nerve is the main component of the visual pathway. Photoreceptors change light energy to nerve impulse which goes to a bipolar cell. From bipolar cells impulse is transferred to amacrine cell.
These impulses terminate on ganglia. This whole process takes place on the retina. From here, the role of optic nerve starts which carries information from retina to brain via optic chiasma. Hence, information is finally transferred to the visual cortex which is the control center for vision. The visual cortex is located in the occipital lobe of the brain.
Different types of defects in the visual field occur when brain lesions involve any part of the visual pathway. Examples of defects are temporal hemianopia, homonymous hemianopia, heteronymous hemianopia, etc.
Subcortical lesions affect visual pathways. Any defect in the visual pathway can be an indication of the subcortical lesion. The visual pathway is not affected by cortical lesions. When a stimulus is presented to the body that is considered rewarding in the human dictionary, the brain raises the concentration of dopamine via dopamine neural pathways in the brain. There are many dopamine pathways but the reward center is mainly mediated by the mesolimbic pathway.
The most common complaint of patients is pain. To relieve pain, we need to understand its pathway. Sensations of pain are perceived by A-delta and c fibers. These sensations are carried to the brain through the pain pathway.
Cerebral peduncles originate from the cerebellum, cerebral cortex and spinal cord of the nervous system. There are three types of the cerebral peduncle. They are very important as they serve as a passage for motor and sensory neural tracts. For example, corticospinal tracts and corticobulbar tracts. These tracts arise from the cerebrum and end at pons. With this centre destroyed, no further motion is possible; that side of the body becomes completely paralyzed.
All of the body's voluntary movements are controlled by the brain. One of the brain areas most involved in controlling these voluntary movements is the motor cortex. To carry out goal-directed movements , your motor cortex must first receive various kinds of information from the various lobes of the brain : information about the body's position in space, from the the parietal lobe; about the goal to be attained and an appropriate strategy for attaining it, from the anterior portion of the frontal lobe; about memories of past strategies, from the temporal lobe; and so on.
The putamen and the caudate nucleus are traversed by the myelinated axons of the internal capsule. These bundles of white matter form stripes that distinguish them from the grey matter of the nuclei that they traverse. That is why this group of neural structures taken together is often referred to as the corpus striatum, or striped body. Likewise, the shape of the putamen and the globus pallidus recall that of a lens, which is why these two nuclei together are known as the lenticular nucleus.
Learning How To Pique Curiosity. As their name suggests, the basal ganglia consist of a set of neural structures buried deep inside the cerebrum. The main basal ganglia are the caudate nucleus, the putamen, and the globus pallidus.
These ganglia, or clusters of nerve cells, are tightly interconnected. They also receive information from several different regions of the cerebral cortex. Once the basal ganglia have processed this information, they return it to the motor cortex via the thalamus. One of the likely functions of this loop, which operates in conjunction with another one involving the cerebellum , is to select and trigger well co-ordinated voluntary movements.
This role of the basal ganglia in initiating and regulating motor commands becomes clearly apparent in people whose basal ganglia have been damaged, such as patients with Parkinson's disease.
These patients display difficulty in starting the movements they have planned, as well as trembling and slowness once they do begin them. The cerebellum is composed of a number of lobes and lobules which, like the convolutions in the cerebral cortex, increase the surface area of the cerebellar cortex considerably. The cerebellum's anatomical location helps us to better understand its functions.
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